Language and Technology

Text Messaging and IM:

• Register is affected by audience, purpose, and context.
• Participants will use more letters than necessary to imitate prosodic features.
• Use of compressed text - vowel omission (pls), phonetic spelling (nite) acronyms (lol) letter/number homophones (GR8).
• Texts can be ambigous due to a lack of prosodic features.
• non standard spelling and punctuation (similar to speech).
• Ellipsis and Ellison.
• Usually informal.
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Telephone Conversation:

• Schegloff theory - summons/answer => identification/recognition => greeting sequence => how are you sequence. 
• Fillers used to keep turn.
• Turn taking.
• Overlapping can show enthusiasum or dominance. 
• Contexts affects lexis.
• Formality affected by purpose of call.
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