Discourse of Text Messaging
Analysis of SMS Communication
Caroline Tagg
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Discourse of Text Messaging
Analysis of SMS Communication
Caroline Tagg
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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.
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- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- CHAPTER ONE Situating text messaging: what, who, how and why
- CHAPTER TWO A corpus of text messages
- CHAPTER THREE Respellings in text messaging
- CHAPTER FOUR The grammar of text messaging
- CHAPTER FIVE Discourse markers in texting
- CHAPTER SIX Frequent words and phrases in text messaging
- CHAPTER SEVEN Everyday creativity in text messaging
- CHAPTER EIGHT Performing identity through text messaging
- CHAPTER NINE Text messaging in the World: the state of the art and its future
- References
- Index