The Pragmatics of Text Messaging - Making Meaning in Messages (Paperback)

This book provides a comprehensive linguistic exploration of textism use by bilingual young adults, illustrating the function of alternative and creative linguistic features and their role in conveying tone through text. Drawing on a corpus of nearly 45,000 text messages donated by bilingual young adults in New York City, this volume explores the ways in which the use of texting features such as 'lol,' emojis, abbreviations, and acronyms is systematic and essential. In part, toward the aim of exposing the tensions bilinguals face navigating a platform that preferences monolingual language practices, the book highlights creativity as a means of both constructing meaning and performing identity for bilingual youths. These findings are extended to explore the role texting plays in communication and identity construction in contemporary society more generally. This volume extends the boundaries of emerging research on language and digital communication, and will be of particular interest to graduate students and scholars in computer-mediated communication, pragmatics, and new media.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in Language and Communication
Release date:	August 2020
First published:	2018
Authors:	Michelle A. McSweeney
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-59012-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > Dialectology Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > Slang & jargon Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Discourse analysis Promotions
LSN:	0-367-59012-3
Barcode:	9780367590123

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