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Zusatztext '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.' Informationen zum Autor Caroline Tagg is Lecturer in AppliedLinguistics at the Centre for English Language Studies at the University ofBirmingham, UK. Klappentext 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. Vorwort Reveals the depth and complexity of the language used in SMS text communication, and how it exploits various linguistic resources to create identities. Zusammenfassung Reveals the complexity of the language used in SMS text communication, and how it exploits various linguistic resources to create identities. This book describes the language used in a corpus of over 11,000 text messages, as yet the largest collection in the UK. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
