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Are email and SMS forms of writing or speech? This question cannot be answered easily because their registers are hybrid; they make use of both orality and literacy. This book offers an accurate placement of emails and text messages along the written/spoken continuum. Emails and text messages are also compared to letters and phone calls while a closer comparison of SMS and telegrams shows how far text messaging can be regarded as a renaissance of telegrams. Attention is further paid to multimedia messaging and questions concerning the proportion of image to text, picture categories as well as MMS dialogues are approached. The book finally comments on linguistic changes and deals with the German language community’s concern with regard to the increasing use of Anglicisms.

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Die Studie von Carmen Frehner uberzeugt durch die Formulierung und Fokussierung der Forschungsfrage, die Auswahl und Umsetzung der Methoden und die Prazision und Vorsicht bei der Argumentation. (Oliver Bendel, Zeitschrift fur Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft)

Die Studie von Carmen Frehner ueberzeugt durch die Formulierung und Fokussierung der Forschungsfrage, die Auswahl und Umsetzung der Methoden und die Praezision und Vorsicht bei der Argumentation. (Oliver Bendel, Zeitschrift fuer Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft)

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The Author: Carmen Frehner (born 1978) studied English and German at the University of Zurich and Aberdeen (Scotland). She graduated in 2005 and received her doctor's degree in English linguistics in 2006. The author currently works as an English and German teacher in Zurich.

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