Discourse of Text Messaging

Analysis of SMS Communication

AvCaroline Tagg

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-05-17
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781441132680
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation
Serie:Continuum Discourse

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Mer om författaren

Caroline Tagg is Lecturer in AppliedLinguistics at the Centre for English Language Studies at the University ofBirmingham, UK.

Recensioner i media

'The Discourse of Text Messaging is a pleasure to read. A detailed analysis of a corpus of text messages reveals how people deploy all the resources of language - from spellings and punctuation through to grammar and discourse markers - to create meanings, to construct identities and to generally 'get things done'. The wide-ranging analyses are clearly explained and engagingly written about throughout.'

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter1: Situating text messaging: what, who, how and why \ Chapter 2: Issues in Collecting Data\ Chapter 3: Respellings inText Messaging\ Chapter 4: The Grammar ofText Messaging\ Chapter 5: Spoken DiscourseMarkers in Text Messaging\ Chapter 6: Frequent Wordsand Phrases in Text Messaging \Chapter 7: EverydayCreativity in Text Messaging \Chapter 8: PerformingIdentity through Text Messaging \Chapter 9: Text messaging inthe World: the State of the Art and its Future \Bibliography \ Index