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Email - SMS - Mms|Maurizio Gotti

Email - SMS - Mms : The Linguistic Creativity of Asynchronous Discourse in the New Media Age

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Overview

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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  • ISBN-13: 9783039114511
  • ISBN-10: 3039114514
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
  • Publish Date: April 2008
  • Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.01 pounds
  • Page Count: 294

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