“…Sociolinguistic aspect of the language used in SMS, particularly in identifying gender differences, and some cultural aspects have been highlighted by a number of studies (Dittrich, Johansen, & Kulinskaya, 2011;Yuen, Gill, & Noorezam, 2012;Ling, 2005;Lorenzo-Dus & Bou-Franch, 2003;Syahri, 2013). These works have obtained results similar to the findings of Rash's (2004) study, which shows women write longer and more lexical messages using more emoticons and abbreviations, and they also are more polite and prefer positive politeness strategies more than men.…”