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LANGUAGE IN CRISIS? AN OVERVIEW OF TEXTESE


RALUCA GALIĆąA
“Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău Romania

Issue:

CP, Number 26

Section:

No. 26 (2021) Editorial

Abstract:

Due to the recent developments in technology, and especially due to the rise of digital communication, people have access to a new form of rapid and easy communication. Almost everybody owns a mobile phone, however, this device is no longer used nowadays just for transmitting oral messages under the form of voice calls, but it turned into a mini-computer, through which people communicate by text messages, be they under the form of SMS or messages sent through e-mails and applications such as WhatsApp or posted on social media networks (Facebook or Twitter, for example). Out of the necessity to be informative and comprehensible, text messaging offers the possibility of a quicker interaction through the use of modified forms of words, shortened or abbreviated phrases and sentences and even symbols. This new emerging register has come to be known as textese or textism.

Based on the already existing lists of the most frequent textese (with the exclusion of symbols), the present paper aims to depict the patterns according to which this new register is formed. It also aims to underline the impact texting has had on the English language.

Keywords:

textese, numbers, letters, abbreviations, acronyms.

Code [ID]:

CP202126V00S01A0008 [0005370]

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