The Sociolinguistics of SMS: An Analysis of SMS Use by a Random Sample of Norwegians

Ling, Rich

doi:10.1007/1-84628-248-9_22

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“…The findings on discoursal features clearly suggested that female students mostly wrote complex messages, and this feature was similar to Ling (2005) and Rafi (2008). Instead of making a simple message which contain single idea or thought, they put multiple thoughts in one message altogether.…”

Section: Message Complexitysupporting

confidence: 79%

“…Text messaging is used for various purposes, from exchanging messages and keeping in touch with friends and families (Ling 2005, Al Rousan, Aziz & Christopher 2011, Thurlow 2003 because it connects people to others just by using a mobile device (Hashemi & Azizinehad 2012, Guthery & Cronin 2002. It is not only known to contribute in maintaining the daily life relationship between mates, friends, and family, but also engages those who are involved in academic circles such as students.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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(._.)/ dont 4get 2 txt me plz! Linguistic and Discoursal Features of Short Message Service by Female Texters

Yusuf

Natsir

Yusra

2016

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The practicality and limited space of SMS have become features encouraging the emergence of various forms of SMS language. An analysis of SMS from 20 Acehnese female students in the University of Syiah Kuala was therefore carried out to inspect the elements of language employed within the text messages. The data of 110 SMS gathered through a mobile device were thoroughly analyzed and later categorized into linguistics and discoursal features. The result showed that female students tend to write about their psychological conditions in SMS by employing logogram and pictogram. A number of findings on omitted letters and nonstandard spelling were also indicated in their SMS. They rarely used initialism and shortening in writing the text messages because it is believed that these features can diminish intelligibility. These females also wrote complex messages and employed various languages into their text messages, including the national language (Indonesian), the language of their religion (Arabic), the language from media influence (Japanese), and their mother tongue (Acehnese). Their circumstance of being multilingual has expanded their linguistic performance in employing, typing, and inventing lively SMS. It is also interesting to discover that these texters created new symbols that are not generally found in SMS to identify their reciprocal relationship of the same culture and belief.

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Section: Message Complexitysupporting

confidence: 79%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

(._.)/ dont 4get 2 txt me plz! Linguistic and Discoursal Features of Short Message Service by Female Texters

Yusuf

Natsir

Yusra

2016

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“…It has become an indispensable part of people's lives all over the world, and its amazing penetration is still growing. Texting is the preferred form of mediated interaction among young people, specifically youth, surpassing all other kinds of computer-mediated communication such as instant messaging, e-mail, voice mobile telephony and even land-line phones (Ling, 2005). Their low cost, their smaller size, their personal and private nature, and the introduction of the pre-paid phone cards have contributed significantly to the rapid adoption rate by young people (Faulkner & Culwin, 2005;Ling, 2005Ling, , 2008.…”

Section: Why Do Young People Use Text Messaging?mentioning

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“Where Are You?” The Communicative Functions of Saudi Students’ Text Messaging

Rousan¹,

Aziz²,

Christopher³

2014

IJEL

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The widespread use of the mobile phone service has greatly contributed to the proliferation of text messaging, particularly among young people. The main objective of this study is to examine the communicative functions of the text messaging of young Saudi university students. Thurlow's (2003) theoretical framework is used in this study. The study has a straightforward research question: What are the communicative functions of young Saudi students' text messaging? 750 text messages were collected from the participants. The data collected were coded based on their communicative functions. Five main categories of communicative functions emerged from the data, namely friendship maintenance, socialization, school collaboration, coordination, and exchange of information. The findings of the present study corroborate previous findings about communicative functions in text messaging.

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“…The maximum length of an SMS message is 160 characters which means there is little material for content-based filtering. Due to the short message length available, SMS subscribers use an idiosyncratic language subset with abbreviations, phonetic contractions, bad punctuation, emoticons, etc., which is different to the more traditional written 4 language more typically used in emails (Kobus et al, 2008;Ling, 2005). It has also been shown that email spam filtering can be improved by including contextual information found in the email headers (Rennie, 2000;Zhang et al, 2004;Lai, 2007) but SMS messages contain far less information in the headers, which offers less context to work with.…”

Section: From Email To Sms Filteringmentioning

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SMS spam filtering: Methods and data

Delany¹,

Buckley²,

Greene

2012

Expert Systems with Applications

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Mobile or SMS spam is a real and growing problem primarily due to the availability of very cheap bulk pre-pay SMS packages and the fact that SMS engenders higher response rates as it is a trusted and personal service. SMS spam filtering is a relatively new task which inherits many issues and solutions from email spam filtering. However it poses its own specific challenges. This paper motivates work on filtering SMS spam and reviews recent developments in SMS spam filtering. The paper also discusses the issues with data collection and availability for furthering research in this area, analyses a large corpus of SMS spam, and provides some initial benchmark results.

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The Sociolinguistics of SMS: An Analysis of SMS Use by a Random Sample of Norwegians

Cited by 149 publications

References 5 publications

(._.)/ dont 4get 2 txt me plz! Linguistic and Discoursal Features of Short Message Service by Female Texters

(._.)/ dont 4get 2 txt me plz! Linguistic and Discoursal Features of Short Message Service by Female Texters

“Where Are You?” The Communicative Functions of Saudi Students’ Text Messaging

SMS spam filtering: Methods and data

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