My Assignment of Emails Analysis

Analysis for the 1^st e-mail

Characteristics of E-mail

Date	Tuesday, 3rd February, 2009
From	Real name (sue Hashim), female, the sender is familiar to me.
Subject	Short (wa’alaikummussalam)
To	One to one (Lew Pui Ling)
Type	Replied mail, without attachment

Other Features

Contents	Sample	Analysis
Salutation	HII	The sender used ‘HII’ as salutation in this e-mail.
Abbreviation	‘UKM’	The sender used ‘UKM’ which stands for Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
Smiley and Emoticons		The smiley used is familiar and understandable as we used it frequently in daily. is the only smiley or emoticons used in this e-mail. It symbolized ‘big grin’ of the sender. ‘Big grin’ means smile widely especially with the mouth open.
Punctuation marks	‘hru doing?’, ‘TUW?’, ‘..to swim, and then..’, ‘haha..btw, many..’, im not mixed.,pure malay’, ‘honestly speaking, i never thot that u were chinese!!’ and ‘bye!’.	The question marks and commas are used by sender to ask something and continue her words while exclamation mark is being used to expressing sudden surprise.
Short forms	‘TUW’, ‘tc’, ‘hru’, ‘tyme’, ‘wit’, ‘frens’, ‘btw’, ‘thot’, ‘dat’, ‘im’, ‘dunno’, ‘n’, ‘u’ and ‘its’.	Some short forms that being used is familiar and not familiar. The short forms which are not familiar are also not understandable such as ‘TUW’ as Tell U What and ‘tc’ as take care. The short forms that familiar are ‘hru’ means how r u, ‘tyme’ means time, ‘wit’ means with, ‘frens’ mean friends, ‘btw’ means by the way, ‘thot’ means thought, ‘dat’ means that, ‘im’ means I’m, ‘dunno’ means don’t know, ‘n’ means and, ‘u’ means you and ‘its’ means it’s.
Code switching	‘We were enjoying our holiday by going to place like danau to swim....’	The code switching used is Malay to English such as macam to ‘like’.
Trailing dots	‘my holiday was quite fun... haha.. TUW?	The trailing dots being used to show that the sender is thinking what she has to say follow up in this e-mail.
Capitalization and repeated use of letters	Capitalization: ‘TUW’ and ‘UKM’. Repeated use of letters: ‘I’, ‘u’, and ‘and’.	Capitalization in this e-mail is TUW and UKM and these show short forms. The letters used are ‘I’, ‘u’, and ‘and’. ‘And’ is being used to combine two subject or sentences while ‘i’ and ‘u’ are used to show individual.
Hypertexts, pictures and templates		There are no hypertexts, pictures and templates used in this e-mail.
Grammatical aspects	‘..and then dinner outside UKM late at night..’	The problem in this sentence is lack of verb.

wa'alaikummussalam Selasa, 3 Februari, 2009 03:41 Daripada: "sue Hashim" Kepada: "Lew Pui Ling" HII aisyah, hru doing? my holiday was quite fun...haha..TUW? I spend most of my holiday tyme here in UKM. i went back here in Tuesday and stayed together wit my frens in Burhan. We were enjoying our holiday by going to place like danau to swim, and then dinner outside UKM late at night...and lots more. haha..btw, many people thot dat i was chinese..actually im not mixed., pure malay. but maybe my eyes make me look like chinese...i dunno.. n honestly speaking, i never thot that u were chinese!! its a suprise for me when i get to know dat u were actually a chinese girl...hehehe...hope to hear from u soon......tc...bye!~ love, suehashim From: Lew Pui Ling To: dont.touch8@yahoo.com Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 9:34:20 AM Subject: Assalamualaikum.. HI fren, how's ur holiday going?...is it fun o boring?.....by d way, hav u finished up ur assignments?....r u mixed cuz i ur face seems like chinese...i thought u r chinese last time.... Faithfully, aisyah comei... Dapatkan nama E-mel keutamaan anda! Kini anda boleh @ymail.com dan @rocketmail.com.