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Acknowledgement
AStudyoftheStylisicFeaturesofE-mailinEverydayCommunication
Ⅰ. General Introduction
1. 1 E-mail: an inevitable medium in nowaday daily communication
1.2 Methodology employed in this thesis
1.3 Data collection and sampling
1.4 Purpose and significance of the thesis
Ⅱ. Theoretical Background and Literature Review
2.1 E-mail
2.1.1 E-mail vs. snail mail
2.1.2 Brief history of e-mail
2.1.3 E-mail and Computer-Mediated Communication
2.2 Review of previous research on CMC and e-mail
2.2.1 Research abroad
2.2.2 Research at home
2.3 General Stylistics
2.3.1 Concern of stylistics
2.3.2 General Stylistics vs. Literary Stylistics
2.3.3 Aim and procedure of stylistic analysis
Ⅲ. Contextual Factors Analysis
3.1 Field of discourse
3.2 Tenor of discourse
3.3 Mode of discourse
Ⅳ. Stylistic Features of E-mail: Linguistic Description
4. l Phonological level
4.1.1 Paralinguistic features: sound imitation
4.1.2 Drawn-out intonation: reduplicated letter
4. 1.3 Pause and pause fillers
4.2 Graphological level
4.2. 1 Misspelling
4.2.2 Punctuation marks
4.2.3 Capitalization
4.2.4 Increased use of lowercase letter
4.2.5 Emoticons: new graphic conventions
4.2.6 Images and graphic components
4.3 lexical level
4.3.1 Frequent use of simple and colloquial words
4.3.2 Abbreviations
4.3.3 Paralinguistic features: Use of words to indicate action
4.4 Syntactic level
4.4. 1 Pervasive occurrence ofminor sentences
4.4.2 Frequent employment of simple sentence
4.4.3 Short average sentence lergth
Ⅴ. Conclusion
5.1 Summary of the research
5.2 Limitation of this thesis and suggestions for further research
References
Appendix Ⅰ. E-mail samples
Appendix Ⅱ. Emotieons
Appendix Ⅲ. Abbreviations
