Discourse of Text Messaging
Analysis of SMS Communication
1st Edition
Published on 17. May 2012
240 pages
978-1-4411-3268-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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.' 'Through a meticulous investigation of a rich corpus of authentic text messages, Tagg's The Discourse of Text Messaging is by far the most comprehensive book-length study of mobile phone texting from a linguistics perspective. A must-read for anyone interested in digital discourse and communication in the mobile world.'More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-3268-0 (9781441132680)
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07/2012
Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Person
Caroline Tagg is Lecturer in Applied
Linguistics at the Centre for English Language Studies at the University of
Birmingham, UK.
Linguistics at the Centre for English Language Studies at the University of
Birmingham, UK.
Content
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
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
