Singing and codeswitching in sequence closings

Efficient Path Openings and Closings

Path openings and closings are algebraic morphological operators using families of thin and oriented structuring elements that are not necessarily perfectly straight. These operators are naturally translation invariant and can be used in filtering applications instead of operators based on the more standard families of straight line structuring elements. They give similar results to area or att...

Openings and closings in Spanish Email Conversations

Despite the increasing interest scholarly research has shown in the study of computermediated communication, there is still a need to investigate the empirical validity of assumed homogeneity of language usage over the net and focus on the social diversity and variation that characterizes any communication. With this in mind, the present paper is an investigation into the stylistic choices that...

Greetings and Closings in Workplace Email

This article reports on a study of the use and form of greetings and closings in the emails of two New Zealand workplaces: an educational organization and a manufacturing plant. Using discourse analytic techniques, 515 emails were analyzed and a number of differences were identified. In the educational organization, where restructuring has resulted in low staff morale and a mistrust of manageme...

Negotiation of Meaning and Codeswitching in Online Tandems

This paper analyses negotiation of meaning and codeswitching in discourse between 29 language students from classes at a German and a North American university, who teamed up with their peers to collaborate on projects whose results they had to present to the other groups in the MOO during the final weeks of the project. From October to December 1998, these learners, who formed a total of eight...

Codeswitching and the timing of Lexical Insertion