{"product_id":"discourse-of-text-messaging-9781441173768","title":"Discourse of Text Messaging","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReveals 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187491791191,"sku":"9781441173768","price":41.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/discourse-of-text-messaging-9781441173768","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}