"Should be fun-not!": Incidence and marking of nonliteral language in e-mail

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 263-280

  Whalen, Juanita M ^a   Pexman, Penny M ^a   Gill, Alastair J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Discourse analysis; E mail; Irony; Nonliteral language; Pragmatics

Indexed keywords

EID: 69449093406     PISSN: 0261927X     EISSN: 15526526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X09335253     Document Type: Article

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