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EBOOK Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191623400
EAN: ED17FC65EB
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Stron: 256
Data wydania: 2009
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This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects        on literacy, language, and society. Young people who seem to spend much of their        time texting sometimes appear unable or unwilling to write much else. Media outrage        has ensued. "e;It is bleak, bald, sad shorthand,"e; writes a commentator in the UK        Guardian. "e;It masks dyslexia, poor spelling, and mental laziness."e; Exam answers        using textese and reports that examiners find them acceptable have led toheadlines        in the tabloids and leaders in the qualities.Do young people text as much as people        think? Do adults? Does texting spell the end of literacy? Is there a panic in the        media? David Crystal looks at the evidence. He investigates how texting began and        who uses it, why and what for. He shows how to interpret its mix of pictograms,        logograms, abbreviations, symbols, and wordplay, and how it works in different        languages. He explores the ways similar devices have been used in different eras and        discovers that the texting system of conveyingsounds and meaning goes back a long        way, all the way in fact to the origins of writing - and he concludes that far from        hindering literacy, texting may turn out to help it.Contents List

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