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Texting in School: The Gr8 Db8 Revisited
Irina Averianova, Nagoya Business University, Japan
GloCALL 2011
Cell Phone - History
1905 2011
Cell Phone Statistics - worldwide mobile phone subscriptions
Rank
Country or region
Number of mobile phones
% of population
Last updated
- World Over 5 billion 2010
1 China 906,800,000 67.1 June 2011
2 India 840,280,000 70.23 May 2011
3 United States
302,947,098 96 Dec 2010
4 Russia 220,550,000 151.9 February 2011
5 Brazil 217,300,000 111.6 June 2011
6 Indonesia 168,264,000 73.1 May 2009
7 Japan 107,490,000 84.1 Mar. 2009
Instant Messaging-Development 1995 -0.4 messages per customer per month
2006 - 72% of all mobile phone users worldwide use Short Message Service (SMS).
Finland, Sweden, Norway - 90% of the population
The European average - about 85%
2010 -2.4 trillion
Texting as Electronic Discourse: Written Speech Spoken Writing
(Hybrid, A new computer style, Internet Slang, Internet language, Net speak, Chat Room Shorthand, Tech-talk, Nu English)
DISCURSIVE DRIVES
Economy of writing
Linguistic relaxation
Maintenance of orality in the absence of direct auditory interaction
Electronic Discourse
ABBREVIATION
SIMPLIFIED SYNTAX :Incomplete sentences: Need 2 go; been watching ya; “Contracted” contractions: dont, whats, that’s
EMOTICONS (SMILEGLYPHS, SMILEYS)
:-) “smile” :’-( “crying” :-* “kiss”
:-O “surprise, shock” :-D “laughing” :-@ “screaming”
>:-O “angry/yelling >:-( “angry/grumpy”
Texting – Linguistic ProfileInitialisms
Words
N – no Y – yes W – with W/O – without W/E – weekend GF - girl friend
Phrases
NP - no problem FTF – face to face
Sentence
OMG – oh my God! SWDYT – so what do you think CMB – call me back
Texting – Linguistic ProfileContractions
attn, rgds, sb, sth,
Clippings
lab, rep, Jan, Sat, pic
Vowel omission
Gd – good, pls – please, xlnt -excellent
Logograms
29t (tonight), cu @ 8, 4u
Electronic Discourse in SMS
il b kmg dar 2 mor 2 c S cz I need 2 giv her dr buk kmg wif P vl meet 2 k g’n8 (-: (I’ll be coming there tomorrow to see S, because I need to give her the book. Coming with P. We’ll meet too ok? Good night.’)YYSSW - yeah, yeah, sure, whateverSWYRT - so what do you think? BHME@2 - I will be home at 2 o’clock)
Txtng: The Gr8 Db8(D. Crystal, 2008)
My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 :- kids FTF. ILNY, it's a gr8 plc
(In translation: "My summer holidays were a complete waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend and their three screaming kids face to face. I love New York. It's a great place.") (BBC News, 4 March, 2003)
Texting in academic writing
xs cmpnstn fnds wl b nvstd 4 srvvng fmly mmbrs
(In translation: “Excess compensation funds will be invested for surviving family members.”) (I. Berman, 2006)
Texting in academic writing
Common disclaimer phrases (called “parantheticals”) ofn contract in2 ACRONYMS – they tend to occur @ certain points in a sentence which can facilitate decoding. Some e.g.s.: IMHO – In my humble/honest opinion…
Lol, btw, b/c (N. Baron 2009)
@, $, &
Texting – Other problems Cheating
2002 - University of Maryland, College Park, 12 students
2002 - Hitotsubashi University, 26 students
2004 - England, 287 school and college students
Multitasking
Disruption
Texting – Benefits Teenagers read and write more (B. Bass, Maryland
Writing Project, 2002)
Additional experience in writing (D.Crystal, 2009)
Diversity of writing: “A new generation of teenage writers, accustomed to translating their every thought and feeling into words” (H.Helderman, 2009)
Revising and editing (G. Jacobs, 2010)
Top writing platform >>> Increased motivation of writing tasks
Texting – Concerns Code-switching
Knowledge of traditional writing conventions
Communicative awareness
Texting etiquette
Differentiation between creativity and normative language use
NUCB Survey – 40 faculty, 64 3rd-year English MajorsSMS, MMS, Email: “Never” or “Almost never”?
Teachers Students
48 % never send 4 %
32 % never receive 4 %
NUCB SurveyDo we need to use cell-phone for teaching and learning?
Agree DisagreeNot sure
Teachers
2.8 % 54.3 % 42.9 %
Students
47 % 3 % 50 %
NUCB Survey Students SHOULD NOT use cell-
phone at school
AGREE
Teachers Students
75 % 60 %
DISAGREE
Teachers Students
8.5 % 11 %
What is texting today? “Linguistic decline”, “Crisis”
Nu English, language of the future
PURISM OR FLEXIBILITY?
2b or not 2b th@ts ?
Innovative research!
Innovative practice!