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Characteristics of effective auto-reply emails: Politeness and perceptions

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  • Edstrom, Anne
  • Ewald, Jennifer D.

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There is an extensive body of previous research that examines the role of politeness in email communication [1–10], but information about its role in the specific subtype of auto-reply messages is much more limited [10]. The present pilot study, grounded in Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory (1987), further develops this line of investigation by considering readers' perceptions of positive and negative politeness strategies in auto-reply email as well as other features that they report considering when evaluating a message.

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  • Edstrom, Anne & Ewald, Jennifer D., 2019. "Characteristics of effective auto-reply emails: Politeness and perceptions," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 58(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:teinso:v:58:y:2019:i:c:s0160791x1730218x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2019.01.005
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