SCIENTIFIC SERIES
“COGNITIVE STUDIES OF LANGUAGE”
Author: O.А. Karamalak
Abstract:
The paper is devoted to the issue of distributed writing, which is a part of some big research of distributed language and cognition. Some peculiarities of e-mail writing are singled out and a new mode of investigation is proposed according to which texts of the letters are not purely texts but ‘external resources’, inscriptional indices of correspondents. The focus is on the influence and consequences of these inscriptional indices on the people involved and on considering the outcome –giving rise to a consensual domain of interactions. As a result of the correspondence analysis the author of the article sums up that mutually triggering of inscriptional sequences can be divided into three groups: interaction, cooperation and co-functions. They go in layers, the thicker the layer the more complex it is and it leads to the highest point of interactions that is learning. E-mail correspondence is a very interesting object for further research from distributed language perspective.
Keywords: distributed writing, consensual domain of interactions, inscriptional indices, e-mail correspondence, interaction, orientation, co-function