Txtng : the Gr8 Db8 / / David Crystal ; with cartoons by Ed McLachlan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910962549303321
• Autore: Crystal David <1941->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0191562679; 0-19-162340-7; 1-281-77016-7; 9786611770167; 0-19-156267-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Disciplina: 004.692; 302.231; 463.21
• Soggetti: Electronic mail systems - Slang; Online data processing - Acronyms; Text messages (Cell phone systems); Cell phones - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The hype about texting; Chapter 2: How weird is texting?; Chapter 3: What makes texting distinctive?; Chapter 4: Why do they do it?; Chapter 5: Who texts?; Chapter 6: What do they text about?; Chapter 7: How do other languages do it?; Chapter 8: Why all the fuss?; Glossary; Appendix A: English text abbreviations; Appendix B: Text abbreviations in eleven languages; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Does txtng spell the end of literacy? David Crystal looks at the evidence, investigating how txtng began, what it is, why it's used, and how it works. Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 is entertaining and instructive: reassuring for parents, illuminating for teenagers, fascinating for everyone. - ;This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects on literacy, language, and society. Young people who seem to spend much of their time texting sometimes appear unable or unwilling to write much else. Media outrage has ; ensued. &quot;It is bleak, bald, sad shorthand,&quot; writes a co