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The Characteristics ofEmailLanguage onInternet 　　【Abstract】 With the popular use of computer in our life and work， the E-mail has become the important medium of people’s communication insteadof letter， fax and telephone. The E-mail language has its own unique characteristics. On one hand it tends to be oral， informal，on the other hand it resemblesthetraditional letter which has the fixed structure of discourse .By analyzing the E-mail language features we can use the communication tool correctly. 　　【Keywords】 E-mail language；oral and informal ；written letters 　　【Introduction】As the most familiar and widely usedmode of Computer Mediated Communication，email is undoubtedlyan influential force in contemporary communicationexchange. Due to inexpensive pricing and accessibility，email is replacing both the telephone and the traditional letter as most convenient means of two-person discourse.the Wall Street Journal？confirmed that almost four trillion email messages had been exchanged as compared to the107 billion articlessent first-class through the US post office[1]， and， predictably，the numbers have continued to rise by staggering degrees，as similar studies have estimated that the total daily numberof personal emails alone being exchanged was 8billion， not accounting for business-oriented communication.This increasing level of electronic communicative exchangemust necessarily affect the way users of email are interactingwith each other. 　　1 Writing Based 　　1.1 Resembling the traditional letter 　　Early attempts to characterize the language of emailtended to argue for the predominance of either an oral or awriting based standard of communication， though almost allcontemporary studies seem to agree that electronic languageuse is influenced by both equally or else falls into a separatecategory outside of this dichotomy.One of the more remarkable ways in which email resemblesthe traditional letter is the fixed structure of discoursethat email messages are composed fr