New technology texts

In the technology texts we can find tree examples

1. Websites

Some websites have features that make websites a distintive form of text
- The material is organised and presented is influenced by the dimensions of the screen.
- The text are non-linear. The traditional linear text is read progressively from the top of the page to the bottom.
- The information is broken down into manageable. Graphological features, with the ue of colour, animation and visual images are important to indicate hypertext links.
- Websites are much more interactive than traditional written texts.

2. E-mail

Some E-mails do have distinctive linguistic characteristics. The informality of E-mail, together with the interactive relationship between senders and recivers, makes it a form of written communication that is in many ways close to spoken language.
E-mail language features

- Lexis is often conversation. This frequently use colloquialism and contractions.  There are more tolerance of spelling errors than in traditional texts, the messages are quicker and are not usually checked for errors.

- Grettings and farewells shows the informality of the medium. The most comon way of openig messages is "Hi" and sometimes greetings are dispensed with the sender and receiver's name at the top of the message.

- Grammatical features include loosely constructive sentences, that is similar to the natural flow of speech. To hurry the typing, some punctuation marks and capital letters may be omitted.

- There are a lot of methods to suggest the prosodic features of speech, like the tone of the voice. For expample: non-standart spelling to suggest pronunciation, etc.

- A large nunmber of abbreviations are used in e-mails, chating, etc. Example: JK (just kidding).

- Emoticons are graphical symbols used to represent body language and facial expressions. Example: :-) (smile)