txt abrvs in speech?

[Victor Steinbok]

Since the discussion devolved somewhat into comments on specific
instances, no one appears to have mentioned Alay Grayson appearance on
Hardball.

http://huff.to/aNuUSx

Another place to look is appearance of txting on billboards--this may
not show up in linguistic research but might make an appearance in
marketing journals that often discuss very odd issues.

     VS-)

On 3/29/2010 9:01 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> A student in our freshman seminar in Varieties of English (Raffaella
> Zanuttini and I are co-instructors) is interested in tracking down
> any previous research on the incorporation of texting abbreviations
> (or, less commonly, acronyms) in speech.  Classic constructed
> examples appear in the Cingular/AT&T commercials viewable at
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nIUcRJX9-o&feature=related
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySR3hpieiQc&feature=related
>
> The student has already collected material in response to a
> questionnaire he posted via Facebook but doesn't want to ignore
> previous empirical investigations when he writes up his results.
> Thanks for any pointers anyone can provide.
>
> LH
>

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