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The Pragmatics of Text Messaging - Making Meaning in Messages (Hardcover)
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The Pragmatics of Text Messaging - Making Meaning in Messages (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Language and Communication
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Discovery Miles: 38 830
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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.
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