Definitions
icon
sign/symbol
metaphor

directory category: Communication sub-section: Email

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Order of classification
This is the email sub-section of the category 'communication'. The sub-section is ranked by the word that is in association with the Internet icon and its metaphor. Therefore the top section contains 13 'Letter icons' that are mostly underpined with the word 'Email'. The recent redesign of a website in Zimbabwe went from @ symbol to letter icon to represent email. This reinforces the semantic dominance of the letter icon. The second and third category has little semantic difference between @ symbol and American style mail box. Some of the countries in this section do not actually have American style mail boxes, in terms of real world usage. Their influence for this metaphor is through direct experience of Internet usage.

Below each computer symbol is the name of the country of origin. The link displays the original family group.

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icon: Letter
word: email

..---. Email Letter icons Associated word; Email (9), Web mail (3), Check email (1)

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