23.2810, Books: Discourse of Text Messaging: Tagg

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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:57:49
From: Ellena Moriarty [Ellena.moriarty at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Discourse of Text Messaging: Tagg

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Title: Discourse of Text Messaging 
Subtitle: Analysis of SMS Communication 
Series Title: Bloomsbury Discourse  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
	   http://www.continuumbooks.com

Book URL: http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=158094&SubjectId=989&Subject2Id=936 

Author: Caroline Tagg

Hardback: ISBN: 1441174095 9781441174093 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Paperback: ISBN: 1441173765 9781441173768 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 24.99

Abstract:

Understanding the discourse of text messaging has profound implications for 
society. SMS text messaging has impacted considerably on how we 
communicate with others. Negative, sometimes alarmist media coverage 
continues to fuel debate surrounding its 'damaging' effects on language and 
literacy, yet these portrayals tend to be based on extreme or fictionalised 
accounts of text messaging. What kind of language do people really use 
when they text.

Drawing on a range of academic sources from various fields, this book 
describes the language used in a corpus of over 11,000 text messages, as 
yet the largest collection in the UK. In particular, the book shows how the 
discourse of text messaging is shaped by users' often creative responses to 
the functions and constraints of the medium.

This is an essential book for upper level undergraduates and postgraduates 
studying discourse analysis, as well as educators wanting to understand this 
important new form of discourse.

'The Discourse of Text Messaging is a pleasure to read. A detailed analysis 
of a corpus of text messages reveals how people deploy all the resources of 
language - from spellings and punctuation through to grammar and discourse 
markers - to create meanings, to construct identities and to generally 'get 
things done'. The wide-ranging analyses are clearly explained and engagingly 
written about throughout.'David Barton, Professor of Language and Literacy, 
Lancaster University, UK

Chapter 1: Situating text messaging: what, who, how and why  \ Chapter 2: 
Issues in Collecting Data \ Chapter 3: Respellings in Text Messaging \ 
Chapter 4: The Grammar of Text Messaging \ Chapter 5: Spoken Discourse 
Markers in Text Messaging \ Chapter 6: Frequent Words and Phrases in Text 
Messaging \ Chapter 7: Everyday Creativity in Text Messaging \ Chapter 8: 
Performing Identity through Text Messaging \ Chapter 9: Text messaging in 
the World: the State of the Art and its Future \ Bibliography \ Index 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

Written In: English  (eng)

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