Erhan Aslan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Erhan Aslan is involved.
Articles
2026 “Your account has been compromised”: Exploring emotional triggers in scam emails Internet Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
Scam emails pose a significant threat to online security, exploiting individuals’ vulnerabilities through emotional manipulation. This study explores emotional triggers in a corpus of scam emails (n = 371) compiled from ten genuine email accounts over a period of five years (2018–2023). Using… read more
2022 Days of our ‘quarantined’ lives: Multimodal humour in COVID-19 internet memes Internet Pragmatics 5:2, pp. 227–256 | Article
During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, many users around the world exploited internet memes as a digital source of humour to cope with the negative psychological effects of quarantining. Drawing on multimodal discourse analysis, this study investigates a set of COVID-19 internet memes… read more
2017 The impact of face systems on the pragmalinguistic features of academic e-mail requests Pragmatics and Society 8:1, pp. 61–84 | Article
This study investigates the impact of power/distance (PD) variables operationalized as face systems on the pragmalinguistic features of academic e-mail requests. A corpus of 90 academic e-mails was classified into four face system groups: hierarchical (sender +P), hierarchical (recipient +P),… read more