| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This paper analyzes the language of Japanese spam mails. Special focus is on one specific type of spam: make-believe dating invitations by women looking for physical relationships with male partners, a phenomenon also known as "gyaku-enjokosai". The textual analysis of a corpus of 343 spam messages is complemented by two additional research tools: a questionnaire survey with 55 Japanese undergraduate students and a series of semi-structured interviews with a former writer of spam messages.
Taken together the three parts of the project provide some new insights into the textual characteristics of spam, including both the producing end of these texts and their (potential) readers.
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