English Correspondence
2010
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter I. Interaction in Writing
§ 1.1 The Language of Correspondence: Epistolary Identity or Overview
§ 1.2 Letters as a Source for Building Social Networks
§ 1.3 Classification of Written English Correspondence
§ 1.4 Genre and Register of Written Correspondence
Chapter II. Analysis of
§ 1.1
§ 1.2
§ 1.3
§ 1.4
Chapter III.
§ 1.1
§ 1.2
§ 1.3
§ 1.4
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter I. Interaction in Writing
§ 1.1 The Language of Correspondence: Epistolary Identity or Overview
Today English is the most popular international language in the world. According to the ethnologies, there are over one billion people who speak English as a first or second language, and use English language for business or education. But less than a third of these speak English as their first language because of colonization by the British Empire of North America, India, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, where English was adopted as their first or second language.
So, English is spoken in a big number of countries and territories as United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, The United States of America, Australia, India, Pakistan, Singapore and others, and has a great diversity of dialects, such as Hiberno-English, Indo-Pakistani English, Philippine English and others.
This diversity of spoken English and dialects determine the differences in written English by diversity of traditions, practices, and cultures of letter writing and include physical features such as handwriting, abbreviations and spelling conventions.
Writing itself is a method of representing language in visual or tactile form. Writing systems use sets of symbols to represent the sound of speech or for such things as punctuation and numerals.
Here are a number of ways to define writing systems: * a system of more or less permanent marks used to represent an utterance in such a way that it can be recovered more or less exactly without the
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter I. Interaction in Writing
§ 1.1 The Language of Correspondence: Epistolary Identity or Overview
§ 1.2 Letters as a Source for Building Social Networks
§ 1.3 Classification of Written English Correspondence
§ 1.4 Genre and Register of Written Correspondence
Chapter II. Analysis of
§ 1.1
§ 1.2
§ 1.3
§ 1.4
Chapter III.
§ 1.1
§ 1.2
§ 1.3
§ 1.4
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter I. Interaction in Writing
§ 1.1 The Language of Correspondence: Epistolary Identity or Overview
Today English is the most popular international language in the world. According to the ethnologies, there are over one billion people who speak English as a first or second language, and use English language for business or education. But less than a third of these speak English as their first language because of colonization by the British Empire of North America, India, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, where English was adopted as their first or second language.
So, English is spoken in a big number of countries and territories as United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, The United States of America, Australia, India, Pakistan, Singapore and others, and has a great diversity of dialects, such as Hiberno-English, Indo-Pakistani English, Philippine English and others.
This diversity of spoken English and dialects determine the differences in written English by diversity of traditions, practices, and cultures of letter writing and include physical features such as handwriting, abbreviations and spelling conventions.
Writing itself is a method of representing language in visual or tactile form. Writing systems use sets of symbols to represent the sound of speech or for such things as punctuation and numerals.
Here are a number of ways to define writing systems: * a system of more or less permanent marks used to represent an utterance in such a way that it can be recovered more or less exactly without the