The Text-in-Context of Email Communication - Softcover

AlAfnan, Mohammad Awad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 6139914477 ISBN 13: 9786139914470

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 6139914477
• ISBN 13: 9786139914470
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284