Mohammad Awad AlAfnan

The Text-in-Context of Email Communication

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Intercultural face-to-face communication is tricky as people from different cultures have different approaches to communication, meeting styles, and business etiquette. In face-to-face communication, these differences can be negotiated through gestures, body language, and facial expressions. In emails, however, this luxury is not available. Emails may lose a lot of potentials in cultural translations, and can also be a source of feud and possibly confusion. As an asynchronous method of communication, the language of emails is the only encounter between communicators. Therefore, intercultural stylistic and contextual differences can be a source of dispute, as messages written by non-native speakers can be viewed unfavorably by the natives and vice versa. This book examines workplace emails from the stylistic and the contextual perspectives. In particular, this book scrutinizes the stylistic features of internal and external workplace emails that are written by Malaysians, Chinese,Indians, Africans, Middle Eastern and British employees and employers. It is a text-in-context multicultural enquiry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 441g
• ISBN-13: 9786139914470
• ISBN-10: 6139914477
• Artikelnr.: 57786901

Autorenporträt

Dr. Mohammad Awad AlAfnan is an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics. He worked in universities in Malaysia and the Middle East. He has taught classes, conducted research, participated in conferences and written extensively about genre analysis, discourse analysis, computer-mediated communication and discourse analysis.