Understanding the discourse of text messaging has profound implications for society. SMS text messaging has impacted considerably on how we communicate with others. Negative, sometimes alarmist media coverage continues to fuel debate surrounding its 'damaging' effects on language and literacy, yet these portrayals tend to be based on extreme or fictionalised accounts of text messaging. What kind of language do people really use when they text?
Drawing on a range of academic sources from various fields, this book describes the language used in a corpus of over 11,000 text messages, as yet the largest collection in the UK. In particular, the book shows how the discourse of text messaging is shaped by users' often creative responses to the functions and constraints of the medium.
This is an essential book for upper level undergraduates and postgraduates studying discourse analysis, as well as educators wanting to understand this important new form of discourse.
Autorentext
Caroline Tagg is Lecturer in Applied
Linguistics at the Centre for English Language Studies at the University of
Birmingham, UK.
Zusammenfassung
Understanding the discourse of text messaging hasprofound implications for society. SMS text messaging has impacted considerablyon how we communicate with others. Negative, sometimes alarmist media coveragecontinues to fuel debate surrounding its 'damaging' effects on language and literacy,yet these portrayals tend to be based on extreme or fictionalised accounts oftext messaging. What kind of language do people really use when they text? Drawing on a range of academic sources from variousfields, this book describes the language used in a corpus of over 11,000 textmessages, as yet the largest collection in the UK. In particular, the book showshow the discourse of text messaging is shaped by users' often creativeresponses to the functions and constraints of the medium. This is an essential book for upper levelundergraduates and postgraduates studying discourse analysis, as well aseducators wanting to understand this important new form of discourse.
Inhalt
Chapter
1: Situating text messaging: what, who, how and why
\ Chapter 2: Issues in Collecting Data
\ Chapter 3: Respellings in
Text Messaging
\ Chapter 4: The Grammar of
Text Messaging
\ Chapter 5: Spoken Discourse
Markers in Text Messaging
\ Chapter 6: Frequent Words
and Phrases in Text Messaging \
Chapter 7: Everyday
Creativity in Text Messaging \
Chapter 8: Performing
Identity through Text Messaging \
Chapter 9: Text messaging in
the World: the State of the Art and its Future \
Bibliography \ Index
Titel
Discourse of Text Messaging
Untertitel
Analysis of SMS Communication
Autor
EAN
9781441132680
ISBN
978-1-4411-3268-0
Format
PDF
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
17.05.2012
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
5.24 MB
Anzahl Seiten
240
Jahr
2012
Untertitel
Englisch
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