| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 239 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The hype about texting -- How weird is texting? -- What makes texting distinctive? -- Why do they do it? -- Who texts? -- What do they text about? -- How do other languages do it? -- Why all the fuss? -- Glossary -- English text abbreviations -- Text abbreviations in eleven languages. |
| Summary |
Does txtng spell the end of literacy? David Crystal looks at the evidence, investigating how txtng began, what it is, why it's used, and how it works. Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 is entertaining and instructive: reassuring for parents, illuminating for teenagers, fascinating for everyone. - ;This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects on literacy, language, and society. Young people who seem to spend much of their time texting sometimes appear unable or unwilling to write much else. Media outrage has ensued. "It is bleak, bald, sad shorthand," writes a co. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Electronic mail systems -- Slang.
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Online data processing -- Acronyms.
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Text messages (Cell phone systems)
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Cell phones -- Social aspects.
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COMPUTERS -- Desktop Applications -- Email Clients.
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COMPUTERS -- System Administration -- Email Administration.
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Kurznachrichtendienst.
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Soziolinguistik.
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| Added Title |
Texting |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Crystal, David, 1941- Txtng. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 9780199544905 (DLC) 2008002551 (OCoLC)191758335 |
| ISBN |
9780191562679 (electronic bk.) |
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019156267X (electronic bk.) |
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