Language use in emails during Covid-19 pandemic in the context of higher educational relations

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Nur Azwa Mohd. Faizal
مؤلفون آخرون: Farhana Diana Deris, supervisor
التنسيق: Master's thesis
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 2025
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://utmik.utm.my/handle/123456789/40513
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spelling utm-123456789-405132025-08-21T14:28:46Z Language use in emails during Covid-19 pandemic in the context of higher educational relations Nur Azwa Mohd. Faizal Farhana Diana Deris, supervisor Education Not available Language used in emails is unique, diverse with no fixed format or fixed set of words to writing an email. Depending on situations, the purpose of communications and individuals' preference, language use would vary in different sets of email genres. Thus, this study attempted (1) to analyse the language structure use in emails between international institutions during COVID-19 pandemic crisis, and (2) to investigate the pattern of the language used in emails between the international institutions during COVID-19 pandemic crisis. This study utilized the qualitative case study design. The emails collected for the data analysis were attained from only one rich informant that exchanges emails daily with international institutions as their management tasks. 24 emails were selected for a comprehensive analysis of the language used based on two themes which are language structure and language pattern adopted from AlAfnan (2017). The results from this study showed that (1) there are 3 types of intertextuality or language structures employed by writers in the emails. Referential intertextuality was the most used language structure followed by functional intertextuality. Both of these structures were commonly found in the hybrid genre emails in this study. The Generic Intertextuality analysis reported that over half of the emails used the same generic structures which are the framing and content moves in forming their emails. Interestingly, quite several emails omit the compulsory framing moves of “signature”. Moreover, this study revealed that (2) informing genre (29.2%) is the most used genre followed by delivery email (8.3%) and enquiry email (8.3%). Taking into note, these three (informing + delivery, informing + enquiry and delivery + enquiry genres) are the hybrid genres detected. Writers employ both written and spoken language features with some non-verbal cues to help them delivered their messages while maintaining healthy partnerships. Thus, the variety of language structure and language patterns give awareness and guidelines to whoever wants to write an email and that writers are free to choose their writing style. The significance, limitations and implications of the study were also discussed in the study. Lastly, recommendations were suggested to widen the context of the study of language use in emails especially in the context of international relations and in different types of crises. fahmimoksen UTM 138 p. Thesis (Master of Education (Teaching English as a Second Language)) - Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2021 2025-03-06T10:00:18Z 2025-03-06T10:00:18Z 2021 Master's thesis https://utmik.utm.my/handle/123456789/40513 vital:150216 valet-20230125-104628 ENG Closed Access UTM Complete Unpublished Completion application/pdf Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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Language use in emails during Covid-19 pandemic in the context of higher educational relations
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title Language use in emails during Covid-19 pandemic in the context of higher educational relations
title_full Language use in emails during Covid-19 pandemic in the context of higher educational relations
title_fullStr Language use in emails during Covid-19 pandemic in the context of higher educational relations
title_full_unstemmed Language use in emails during Covid-19 pandemic in the context of higher educational relations
title_short Language use in emails during Covid-19 pandemic in the context of higher educational relations
title_sort language use in emails during covid 19 pandemic in the context of higher educational relations
topic Education
url https://utmik.utm.my/handle/123456789/40513
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