Discourse of Text Messaging

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.

Auteur

Caroline Tagg is Lecturer in Applied
Linguistics at the Centre for English Language Studies at the University of
Birmingham, UK.

Résumé
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.

Contenu

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