Overview

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. These articles were previously published in Lingvisticae Investigationes Vol. 35:2 (2012).

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Author:   Louise-Amélie Cougnon (Catholic University of Louvain) ,  Cédrick Fairon (Catholic University of Louvain)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   61
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9789027202802

ISBN 10:   902720280
Pages:   267
Publication Date:   08 July 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Foreword (by Crystal, David); 2. Introduction (by Cougnon, Louise-Amelie); 3. Articles; 4. Seek&Hide: Anonymising a French SMS corpus using natural language processing techniques (by Accorsi, Pierre); 5. SMS experience and textisms in young adolescents: Presentation of a longitudinally collected corpus (by Bernicot, Josie); 6. Automatic or Controlled Writing?: The Effect of a Dual Task on SMS Writing in Novice and Expert Adolescents (by Combes, Celine); 7. Development of SMS language from 2000 to 2010: A comparison of two corpora (by Kirsten-Torrado, Ursula); 8. Texto4Science: A Quebec French database of annotated text messages (by Langlais, Philippe); 9. SMS communication as plurilingual communication: Hybrid language use as a challenge for classical code-switching categories (by Morel, Etienne); 10. French text messages: From SMS data collection to preliminary analysis (by Panckhurst, Rachel); 11. A sociolinguistic analysis of transnational SMS practices: Non-elite multilingualism, grassroots literacy and social agency among migrant populations in Barcelona (by Sabate Dalmau, Maria); 12. Negation marking in French text messages (by Stark, Elisabeth); 13. i didn't spel that wrong did i. Oops : Analysis and normalisation of SMS spelling variation (by Tagg, Caroline); 14. Lol, mdr and ptdr: An inclusive and gradual approach to discourse markers (by Uygur-Distexhe, Deniz); 15. Index

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[T]he pieces in this collection come together to create a sense of urgency for studying SMS Communication as it is evolving. In a veritable call to action, David Crystal's introduction sums up the essence of this volume perfectly: that witnessing SMS Communication emerge is a time-sensitive opportunity that researchers must take advantage of. This collection is a first step towards documenting and analyzing this language form as it is changing. -- Michelle Johnson, CUNY Graduate Center, on Linguist List 26.3129, July 2015

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