[Air-l] IM and SMS: Linguistic Analysis

[Charles Ess]

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
900 N. Benton Ave.                          Voice: 417-873-7230
Springfield, MO  65802  USA            FAX: 417-873-7435
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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