This document provides a discourse analysis of SMS language as a novel genre. It discusses how SMS language has revolutionized everyday communication through abbreviations and other features. The analysis examines SMS language through frameworks like Grice's cooperative principle and maxims, code-switching, psychoanalysis, and critical discourse analysis. It argues that SMS language represents a new hybrid genre that blends speech and writing to meet the constraints of text messaging while serving social functions.

1. DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
 Presenter:
Hina Javaid
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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

13. CODE-SWITCHING

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

20. THANKS