Influence of Social Distance and Gender on the Email Writing of Student / Teacher and Student / Student Interactions of Iranian High School Students in Isfahan

; Reza Biria; ; Hamid Reza Haghverdi

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" Influence of Social Distance and Gender on the Email Writing of Student / Teacher and Student / Student Interactions of Iranian High School Students in Isfahan "

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	155433
Doc. No	:	5416p
Call number	:	‭5416‬
Main Entry	:	Mirzaie, Nasrin
Title Proper	:	Influence of Social Distance and Gender on the Email Writing of Student / Teacher and Student / Student Interactions of Iranian High School Students in Isfahan
Supervisor	:	; Reza Biria
Advisor	:	; Hamid Reza Haghverdi
College	:	Khorasgan
Date	:	, 2013=1392
Degree	:	M.A
field of study	:	, General linguistics
College	:	, Khorasgan
student score	:	, 1392/06/20, 1391/00/00
Page No	:	xiii , 109
Note	:	842
Abstract	:	Computer-based media have placed new specific demands on language which can promote variation in language use (Halliday, 1990). Electronic mail, as a form of computer - based media, can promote such a variation in language-use as Halliday predicts. This study investigates the e-mail literacy in Persian students and focuses on the effect of closeness and social distance on the formality of the written messages. For this purpose, 180 high school students (male and female) participated in this study. The subjects were asked to write two e-mails and send the first e-mail to their teachers (as the person with a higher social status) and the second one to their peers (as the person with the same social status). Their e-mails were examined for: a) social distance in each form (e-mails sent to the teachers and those sent to the students) and b) degree of closeness. To examine the first research question the frequency and percentages of the intended features were calculated and subsequently for the first and the second research questions two Chi- square tests were run. The findings indicated that the e-mails students wrote to their teachers and those sent to their peers differ in terms of formality and discourse features. In addition, the result showed that there is a meaningful difference between the e-mails sent by males and those written by females signifying the important role of gender in the style of e-mail writing..
electronic file name	:	54161.pdf
Title and statement of responsibility and	:	Influence of Social Distance and Gender on the Email Writing of Student / Teacher and Student / Student Interactions of Iranian High School Students in Isfahan [Thesis]; Reza Biria; Hamid Reza Haghverdi
Internal Bibliographies/Indexes Note	:	Bibliography :p.92-107