[Air-l] IM and SMS: Linguistic Analysis

[Mark Pegrum]

Hi Naomi,

I don't actually have corpora available, but I am doing some work on 
the issue of changes in written language occasioned by use of 
email in particular.  My main focus is on English and, more 
specifically, English as a Foreign/Second Language - and the 
advantages/problems for English learners of the kinds of changes 
occurring within electronic media.

Feel free to contact me off-list if you wish.

Dr. Mark Pegrum
Lecturer in Applied Languages
University of Dundee
Scotland
UK


On 20 Jan 2003, at 12:05, Charles Ess wrote:

> I'm aware of Ylva Hård af Segerstad's dissertation,
> Use and Adaptation of Written Language to the Conditions of
> Computer-Mediated Communication,
> Department of Linguistics, Göteborg University, Sweden, 2002.
> 
> Ylva also did a presentation based on her doctoral work at CATaC'02:
> "Effects of mobile text messaging on the Swedish written language," CATaC'02
> conference proceedings, Fay Sudweeks and Charles Ess (eds.), 355-360.
> (Copies of the Proceedings can be purchased online - see the CATaC'02 URL
> below: as well, I believe Ylva is a member of this list and might be willing
> to share some of her material with interested colleagues?)
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Charles Ess
> Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies
> Drury University
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> Home page:  http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html
> Co-chair, CATaC 2002: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/
> 
> Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23
> 
> > From: "Naomi Susan Baron" <nbaron at american.edu>
> > Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
> > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:13:34 -0500
> > To: air-l at aoir.org
> > Subject: [Air-l] IM and SMS: Linguistic Analysis
> > 
> > 
> > I'm embarking on a linguistic comparison of the actual texts of IMs and
> > SMSs, especially among high school and college students.  Is anyone doing
> > analysis of this sort? I'll be working with Rich Ling (at Telenor), who
> > has been analyzing Norwegian SMSs, but I'm wondering if anyone else has
> > actual IM or SMS corpora they have been looking at linguistically (or that
> > could be used for that purpose).
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Naomi
> > 
> > Naomi S. Baron
> > Professor of Linguistics
> > American University
> > Washington, DC  20016-8045
> > 
> > 
> > 
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