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Download full textSimmons, Thomas L. – 1994
A study of distinctive characteristics of the style in which people communicate in computer-mediated communication (CMC), focusing on use of politeness conventions, is reported. Aspects of the concept of "face" and politeness in social interaction are first reviewed, and threats to speaker's and hearer's face are outlined. The…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Mail, Foreign Countries
Kilgore, Beverly M. – 1995
This document describes a project whereby a researcher spent time in a fifth-grade classroom teaching students to use electronic mail. For two 40-minute periods each week over a period of 18 weeks, 28 students received instruction on mechanics such as sending and reading mail, attaching and retrieving files, and forwarding messages with their own…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Mail
Dzuba, Ethelwyn June – 1994
This thesis describes computer-mediated communication between 15 health and physical education preservice teachers at the University of Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada) and a faculty contact person during the field experience. Discourse using an interactive computer network system called UNIBASE was analyzed to examine communication patterns on the…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Discourse Analysis, Electronic Mail
