Description
The Pragmatics of Text Messaging
Making Meaning in Messages
Routledge Research in Language and Communication Series
Language: EnglishSubject for The Pragmatics of Text Messaging:
Keywords
Positive Politeness; Phatic Communion; textisms; Repeated Letters; text messaging; Illocutionary Force; digital communication; Negative Politeness; bilingual young adults; Male Male Dyads; pragmatics; Pragmatic Particles; theories of politeness; Exclamation Points; emojis; Social Closeness; corpus linguistics; Play Frame; computer mediated communication; Digital Communication Technologies; media studies; Cell Phone Ownership; Spoken Conversation; Pragmatic Function; Illocutionary Point; HSE Degree; Chat Bots; Computer; Mediated Communication; Code Switching; Laughter Particles; Negative Face; HSE Program; Preferred Communication Mode; Sincerity Condition; NTT
Publication date: 08-2020
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 06-2018
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
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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.
1. A Language Is Born: Introduction
2. Txts in Focus: Participants and Corpus
3. It’s All in the ‘Contxt’: Theoretical Background
4. Mind Your Texts: Politeness
5. Txt Acts: Speech Acts
6. *Nvrmnd: Identity Performance
7. We Don’t Speak Phone: Bilingual texting
8. Txt IRL: Conclusion
Michelle A. McSweeney is a Research Scholar in the Center for Spatial Research at Columbia University. She completed her PhD in Linguistics in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy in 2016 at the Graduate Center at City University of New York. Her recent work focuses on digital writing in romantic relationships.
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