Sms text analysis: language, gender and current practices
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2012
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This article tests the assumption that SMS language is like a pidgin in every speech
community. The article also examines the assumption that a great motor of SMS lives
among females whose lexical and morpho-syntactic choices are different from males. It
further speculates influence of SMS language on language of media. One hundred
messages were taken randomly from 20 cell phones and perceptions of 25 males and 25
females were recorded on an ordinal scale for analysis. The text was analyzed to look
into lexicology, morphology and syntactic levels of texters, and influence of SMS on
language of commercials. The results show that a novice intelligible language has
evolved through SMS, which is influencing language of media. A significant difference is
found between male and female texters’ linguistic properties.
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SMS Language, Gender and Current Practices
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