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Understanding the discourse of text messaging hasprofound implications for society. SMS text messaging has impacted considerablyon how we communicate with others. Negative, sometimes alarmist media coveragecontinues to fuel debate surrounding its 'damaging' effects on language and literacy,yet these portrayals tend to be based on extreme or fictionalised accounts oftext messaging. What kind of language do people really use when they text?Drawing on a range of academic sources from variousfields, this book describes the language used in a corpus of over 11,000 textmessages, as yet the largest c

Mass communications --- Computer architecture. Operating systems --- Pragmatics --- Discourse analysis --- Text messages (Cell phone systems) --- Instant messaging. --- IM (Instant messaging) --- Messaging, Instant --- Data transmission systems --- Microblogs --- Messages, Text (Cell phone systems) --- Text messages (Telephone systems) --- Texts (Cell phone messages) --- Cell phone systems --- Data processing.

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Online social networks. --- Online identities. --- Social media. --- Sociale netwerken --- Sociale media en identiteit --- Sociale media --- Online identiteit --- Taalgebruik op sociale media --- Discourse analysis. --- discoursanalyse --- Mass communications --- Sociology of culture --- Sociale netwerken. --- Sociale media en identiteit. --- Online identiteit. --- Taalgebruik op sociale media. --- discoursanalyse.

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This book advocates a new post-digital linguistic ethnography approach to unpacking mobile communication and enabling a more informed understanding of individuals' communicative practices in cities today. Drawing on data from a group of ordinary working people, multilingual individuals from superdiverse cities across the United Kingdom, the volume brings observations from this data together to form a new concept of resourcefulness' as a means of explaining the emergent sense of agency individuals develop towards remediating existing forms of technology in their everyday lives. The book in turn establishes the notion of the networked individual' by way of demonstrating the ways in which communicative practices cross spaces and platforms. Further chapters detail examples to highlight resourcefulness at work in enabling more efficient business communication, routes to self-expression and the creation and development of social support systems, while a concluding chapter looks at both the limitations and possibilities of resourcefulness and directions for future research. This innovative volume will be of particular interest to students and researchers in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography, and media and communication studies.

Text messages (Cell phone systems) --- Communication --- Communication and technology --- Social aspects.

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This book explores communication on Facebook, developing the new theoretical concept of context design as a way of understanding the dynamics of online interaction. Against a backdrop of fake news and other controversies surrounding online political debate, the authors focus on inadvertent acts of offence on Facebook; that is, when users of the site unwittingly offend or are offended by the airing of political or religious views, or of opinions deemed racist or sexist. Drawing on a survey of Facebook users, they explain why instances of offence occur and what users report doing in response. They argue that Facebook users contribute to the construction of a particular social space, one that is characterised by online conviviality and a belief that Facebook is not the place for serious debate. These views in turn shape the kind of political debate that can take place on the site. This thought-provoking book will appeal to scholars and students of applied linguistics, and anyone interested in the role of social media in contemporary political and social life.

Online social networks. --- Facebook (Firm) --- Communication. --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Applied linguistics. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Discourse analysis. --- Social media. --- Applied Linguistics. --- Discourse Analysis. --- Social Media. --- Media and Communication. --- User-generated media --- Communication --- User-generated content --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects