In this humorous, level-headed and insightful book, world-renowned linguist David Crystal looks at every aspect of text-messaging and considers its effects on literacy, language, and society. He explains how texting began, how it works, who uses it, and how much it is used, and he shows how to interpret the mixture of pictograms, logograms, abbreviations, symbols, and wordplay typically used in texting. He finds that the texting system of conveying sounds and concepts goes back a long way, and far from hindering children's ...
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In this humorous, level-headed and insightful book, world-renowned linguist David Crystal looks at every aspect of text-messaging and considers its effects on literacy, language, and society. He explains how texting began, how it works, who uses it, and how much it is used, and he shows how to interpret the mixture of pictograms, logograms, abbreviations, symbols, and wordplay typically used in texting. He finds that the texting system of conveying sounds and concepts goes back a long way, and far from hindering children's literacy, texting turns out to help it.
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New. 2009. 1st Edition. Paperback. Does txtng spell the end of literacy? David Crystal looks at the evidence, investigating how txtng began, what it is, why it's used, and how it works. Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 is entertaining and instructive: reassuring for parents, illuminating for teenagers, fascinating for everyone. Num Pages: 256 pages, Cartoons. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 270......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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