Aims/Hypothesis English is widely popular in Oman and is also a preferred language like the rest of the world. Arabic society is quite different from European or Asian society. The society is conservative and English is considered as a second language, after Arabic. (Nitko 2003 12). Emails are however quite popular and have become a common form of communication today. They are being used as a convenient method for online social interactions. In our present study, we aim to analyze the content of emails written by Omani males and females and see how far it corresponds or reinforces the varying degrees of politeness by Brown and Levinson, and whether the same differences are found in internet communication between men and women as in the everyday discourse. “ Does this mean that you will refer to other studies that have investigated the use of English by Omani men and women in everyday discourse? It would be essential that you did because otherwise, you do not have a point of comparison ?” Aims and objectives   * To analyze the influence of email in the communication exchange.   * To Omani men and women exhibit the same language differences in internet communication as face to face interaction?   * Is the politeness theory applicable to internet interaction? Research questions The study aims to answer the following research question: Is the politeness theory applicable to internet interaction between Omani men and women? Too general – focus your research question on what you want to investigate. The research question should comprise the variables English, Omani men and women, e-mail, and politeness.  1. What you are going to analyze the emails for.  2. The above sections give indications that you would like to analyze politeness – but what exactly? Are you going to analyze the use of hedges? Are you going to analyze face-threats? Politeness forms like terms of address  3. How are you going to make sure that you will have a balanced sample of participants? If you would like to make comparisons between male and female speech, it would be important to have an equal number of male and female project participants.  4. What about the observer’s paradox? How far does your study take account of it? Brief description of the proposed topic including the area of investigation and methodologies to be used: The research will be a qualitative grounded ethnographically-informed discourse study, wherein I will draw upon politeness theory to investigate how a group of Omani men and women speakers negotiate and develop understanding via email ( can u do this? How would this related to the politeness theory?) and examine the online qualitative data through a theoretically informed lens. The research sources will include a pre-survey questionnaire, e-mails, e-journals, and e-interviews. In terms of the data analysis, it may be pointed out that, due to the asynchronous nature of email communication, the investigation of online intercultural communication requires a research paradigm that could take into consideration the features of computer-mediated discourse. (What is this paradigm?) In phase one, the participants’ personal background information will be gathered. They will also have a web-based informed-consent form, a pre-survey questionnaire, and a Discourse-Completion Test. In phase two, the participants will begin the email correspondence with their e-pals. The data will be collected in phase two which will include email entries and weekly e-journals. In phase three, I will conduct e-intervi