Description
Book SynopsisReveals 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.
Trade Review'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.' -- David Barton, Professor of Language and Literacy, Lancaster University, UK
'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.' -- Carmen Lee, Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Table of ContentsChapter 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.
