International audienceIntroduction. – Text messages are particularly popular among young people. Studies have focused on the links between writers’ unconventional spelling and literacy skills. Creativity gives the possibility to cope with the numerous changes people have to face.Objective. – The present research aimed to examine the relation between the creative potential of texters (text-message writers) and their use of textisms (a change in a word’s orthographic form as compared to traditional writing).Method. – Two corpora were compiled: one of 285 elicited text messages and one of 580 naturalistic text messages produced in daily-life situations by undergraduates (n = 29, 20–23 years of age). Two types of textisms were measured: those c...
Text messaging is a global phenomenon characterised by a casual style of writing known as textese. T...
International audienceThe aim of this paper was to study the characteristics of SMSes in a populatio...
International audienceThe advent of new communication tools, particularly SMS, has encouraged the de...
International audienceIntroduction. – Text messages are particularly popular among young people. Stu...
International audienceThe SMS is one of the new communication technologies. In just a few years, it ...
International audienceStudies on SMS and teenagers have exploded the last few years. Results show th...
Scholars generally accept that spelling variation in texting is a creative practice. This article sh...
SMS texting uses language in a creative way. This is necessitated by the small space available on th...
International audienceThe link between students’ spelling level and their text messaging practice gi...
SMS (Short Message Servicing) encourage the emergence of new writing forms and provides the opportun...
Mobile phone text messaging has continued to increase in popularity since its inception in 1992, but...
Traditionally, the concept of communication is considered as the exchange of information between ind...
Text messages are characterised by an abbreviated, casual language style, known as textese (e.g., c ...
Texting has become any every day task that many teenagers engage in on a day to day basis. Many of t...
2014 W. Keats Sparrow Writing Award, First Place WinnerTexting has become any every day task that ma...
Text messaging is a global phenomenon characterised by a casual style of writing known as textese. T...
International audienceThe aim of this paper was to study the characteristics of SMSes in a populatio...
International audienceThe advent of new communication tools, particularly SMS, has encouraged the de...
International audienceIntroduction. – Text messages are particularly popular among young people. Stu...
International audienceThe SMS is one of the new communication technologies. In just a few years, it ...
International audienceStudies on SMS and teenagers have exploded the last few years. Results show th...
Scholars generally accept that spelling variation in texting is a creative practice. This article sh...
SMS texting uses language in a creative way. This is necessitated by the small space available on th...
International audienceThe link between students’ spelling level and their text messaging practice gi...
SMS (Short Message Servicing) encourage the emergence of new writing forms and provides the opportun...
Mobile phone text messaging has continued to increase in popularity since its inception in 1992, but...
Traditionally, the concept of communication is considered as the exchange of information between ind...
Text messages are characterised by an abbreviated, casual language style, known as textese (e.g., c ...
Texting has become any every day task that many teenagers engage in on a day to day basis. Many of t...
2014 W. Keats Sparrow Writing Award, First Place WinnerTexting has become any every day task that ma...
Text messaging is a global phenomenon characterised by a casual style of writing known as textese. T...
International audienceThe aim of this paper was to study the characteristics of SMSes in a populatio...
International audienceThe advent of new communication tools, particularly SMS, has encouraged the de...