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Email, SMS, MMS

The Linguistic Creativity of Asynchronous Discourse in the New Media Age

By: Carmen Frehner

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Email, SMS, MMS

The Linguistic Creativity of Asynchronous Discourse in the New Media Age

By: Carmen Frehner

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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Peter Lang

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3039114514

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9783039114511

Email, SMS, MMS

The Linguistic Creativity of Asynchronous Discourse in the New Media Age

By: Carmen Frehner

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Email, SMS, MMS

The Linguistic Creativity of Asynchronous Discourse in the New Media Age

By: Carmen Frehner

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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308

Publisher

Peter Lang

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ISBN 10

3039114514

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9783039114511