LINGUIST List 13.2424

Tue Sep 24 2002

Qs: Ling Analysis of SPAM, Future Tense Use Change

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  • Gerrie Soh, Linguistic Analysis of SPAM and gendered emails
  • Antonio Sposato, diachronic change in usage of the future tenses

    Message 1: Linguistic Analysis of SPAM and gendered emails

     Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 06:29:47 +0000
    From: Gerrie Soh <art90696nus.edu.sg>
    Subject: Linguistic Analysis of SPAM and gendered emails


    Hi there!

    I'm interested in analysing SPAM for its linguistic features but am at a loss for relevant research materials/researchers. Aside from Catherine Ball and her computational linguistical methods for analysing SPAM, I know of no other researchers involved in this area. If recommendations could be brought up, that'd be great!

    I'm wondering also if you could perhaps suggest other possible materials in relation to gender in email discourse. I'm only aware of Susan Herring and her works at the moment

    Thanks so much! gerrie

    Message 2: diachronic change in usage of the future tenses

     Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 18:43:33 +0200
    From: Antonio Sposato <antonio.sposatouni-bielefeld.de>
    Subject: diachronic change in usage of the future tenses


    Hi,

    I am an italian student of a german university,

    I'm writing a paper about diachronic change in usage of the future tenses; I'm particularly interested in the reasons about the much greater use of "will" than "be going to" in both natural conversation and scripts in our era.

    I actually have found a good source about the issue in The English Corpus Language, but the series are not easy to get in my library, for they are long-term booked. Could you please suggest me some other references, books or material online?