5. TOPIC:
Discourseanalysis of SMS language as a
novel genre
SMS language has revolutionary and
influential effect on everyday language
SMS language of teens differ from the
elderly people
6. THINK LIKE A WISE MAN BUT COMMUNICATE IN THE
LANGUAGE OF THE PEOPLE.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865 – 1939)
CMC
Internet-
based/PC
Mobile/cell-
based
based
IM chat
Chat rooms Language: netspeak, anterior language:
e-mails weblish, netlish, message texting, text, SMS,
cyberspeak message,
www
MUD & MOO
7. WHAT IS SMS
Short Messaging Service, otherwise known as text
messaging, mobile messaging, or alphanumeric
paging is a digital cellular network feature which
emerged during the 20th century and now is
widespread enough to be established as a novel
genre within the domain of language and
communication
courtesy:funSMS.net)
8. SMS LANGUAGE
Wikipedia defines SMS language,“SMS language or Textese
(also known as txtese, chatspeak, txt, txtspk, txtk, txto, txtk,
texting language, txt lingo, or txt talk) is a term for the
abbreviations and slang most commonly used due to the necessary
brevity of mobile phone text messaging, in particular the
widespread SMS (short message service) communication protocol.
SMS language is also common on the Internet, including in email
and instant messaging. It can be likened to a rebus, using pictures
and single letters or numbers to represent whole words (e.g. "i <3
u" which uses the pictogram of a heart for love, and the letter u
replaces you).”
9. FEATURES OF SMS LANGUAGE
Abbreviations Onomatopoeic,
Contractions, shortening, exclamatory spellings (e.g.
clippings haha! Arrrgh! WOOHOO!
rahh, ahhh
Acronym or initialisms
Deletion of parts of
code-mixing speech:
code-switching subject pronoun
Slang preposition
Syntactic reductions punctuation
Accent stylization articles
Asterisk emoting copula
Letter/number auxiliary/model verbs
homophones contractions
Misspellings an typos ignore capitalization
Emticons
Smileys
Rebus
10. DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF SMS/TEXT ANALYSIS
sample selection rationale
Gricean co-operative principle and Maxim‟s
Language play and ethnography and politeness
Code-switching
Psychoanalysis of the Sms language
Critical Discourse Analysis
11. GRICEAN CO-OPERATIVE PRINCIPLE AND
MAXIM’S:
Grice defined the principle of cooperation as follows:
'during the talk the current stage, you talk to the party as a participant in
your turn-out in the discourse should be in line with common speech
recognition goals or direction.‟
A broad analysis of the sample messages indicates that these texts
bolster three of the key discourse/ pragmatics maxims of Grice which
all serves one general principle of „sociality‟. These being
Brevity and speed
Paralinguistic restitution
Phonological approximation
15. PSYCHOANALYSIS OF THE SMS LANGUAGE
the creative process of social and personal
consciousness of the society and the texters
profound effects on the cultures, societies and
individuals
unconscious mimicking of symbols, contraction,
numeric use, acronyms etc reflects the hidden
desire of texters to come up with the social status
level
Texters a kind of fashion freaks which clearly
mirrors the core complexities of human
personalities
text bullying, anger shown via smiley and
emoticons (:@ = angry).
16. CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
“The strengths of CDA lie in making
connections between social and cultural
structures and processes on the one hand,
and properties of text on the other”
(Fairclough & Wodak, 1997:277).
dimension of discursive practice
underlying power relations
bound to the social production and social
conditions
17. SMS/TEXT LANGUAGE AS A NEW GENRE
useful genre-defining feature of texting
SMS/text language
a creolizing blend of written and spoken discourse
Distinctive Hybrid
speech-writing blend and in terms of their mixing of old and new linguistic varieties.
Orthographic (or typographic) choices that texters make in their messages are
motivated primarily by pragmatic and communicative concerns.
form and function are mutually dependent
(a) the comparatively short length of text-messages;
(b) the relative concentration of non-standard typographic markers; and
(c) their predominantly small-talk content and solidary orientation
18. NEW DIMENSIONS
US President Barack Obama and his
campaign organizers announced his
vice-presidential running mate in
August 2008 via text massage.
we are living in an age where the
diminutive, the brief and the simple are
highly prized in communication.
Umberto Eco (2002)
Language attitude