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Linguistic Symbol Intraference in Textese and E-Mailese: Implications for Teaching and Learning Standard English
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Bode Ekundayo, Omowumi Steve – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2014
This paper examines how senders of text messages and informal e-mail redeploy linguistic symbols innovatively to communicate. Even a cursory look at an SMS text (textese) and informal e-mail (e-mailese) will show that its style is different from that of formal writing. Two thousand twenty text messages and five hundred informal e-mail were studied…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Asynchronous Communication, Electronic Mail, English (Second Language)