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Linguistic parameters of letter genres with regard to oral and written language

Summary/Abstract: Letters as a genre may be electronic or on paper, public or private, job-related or not, addressed and read personally or by a group and, thus, affected by a combination of communicative para meters. The study deals with emails and letters in small-scale corpora of eight subgenres: emails written by teenagers (boys and girls) and educated adult colleagues, in-house emails of a private enterprise, their emails to clients and clients’ emails to them, published letters of a famous writer, plus letters of public servants to people and to each other. Every letter is an act of interactive written communication – an asynchronous mutual action, which belongs to different chains of actions of two correspondents. To be relevant, components of the message have to be based on the action chain of the addressee. A short qualitative analysis reveals much irrelevance pointing to serious communi ca tive errors made by public servants.

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