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<pre wrap="">Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that a new edition of our collective work "SMS Communication. A linguistic approach" is now available.
Please find all the details here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/bct.61/toc">https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/bct.61/toc</a>
You will also find a brief summary hereafter.
Best Regards,
Amélie Cougnon & Cédrick Fairon
<i>The media often point an accusatory finger at new technologies; they suggest that there is always a loss of information or quality, or even that computer-mediated communication is destroying language. Most linguists, on the contrary, are firmly convinced that it is better to consider language as an evolving and changing entity. From this point of view, language is a social tool that has to be studied in-depth through the prism of objectivity, as a process in motion which is influenced by new social and technological stakes, rather than as a fading organism. In this volume we study and describe the societal phenomenon of SMS writing in its full complexity. The aim of this volume is threefold: to present recent linguistic research in the field of SMS communication; to inform the reader about existing large SMS corpora and processing tools and, finally, to display the many linguistic aspects that can be studied via a corpus of text messages.</i>
These articles were previously published in Lingvisticae Investigationes Vol. 35:2 (2012).
[Benjamins Current Topics, 61] 2014. viii, 267 pp.
Publishing status: Available | © John Benjamins
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Louise-Amélie Cougnon
Researcher (UCL)
WebDeb project coordinator
sms4science project coordinator
Office C130
Université catholique de Louvain
Centre de traitement automatique du langage (Cental) L3.03.12
1, Place Blaise Pascal
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgique
Tel: + 32 10 47 37 73
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