DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Presenter:

Hina Javaid

ID# 100884006

TOPIC:

Discourse analysis 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

THINK LIKE A WISE MAN BUT COMMUNICATE IN THE

LANGUAGE OF THE PEOPLE.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865 – 1939)

CMC

Internet-based/PC

based

IM chat

Chat rooms

e-mails

www

MUD & MOO

Language: netspeak, weblish, netlish,

cyberspeak

Mobile/cell-based

anterior message

language:

texting, text, SMS, message,

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)

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).”

FEATURES OF SMS LANGUAGE

Abbreviations

Contractions, shortening, clippings

Acronym or initialisms

code-mixing

code-switching

Slang

Syntactic reductions

Accent stylization

Asterisk emoting

Letter/number homophones

Misspellings an typos

Emticons

Smileys

Rebus

Onomatopoeic, exclamatory spellings (e.g. haha! Arrrgh! WOOHOO! rahh, ahhh

Deletion of parts of speech:

subject pronoun

preposition

punctuation

articles

copula

auxiliary/model verbs

contractions

ignore capitalization

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

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

CODE-SWITCHING

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).

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

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

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

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