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Texting:How we communicate in 160 letters (or less)
By: Brittany Fix
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Purpose
How is languageused to express meaningwhen texting?
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ParticipantsSix sorority sisters in their fourth year at the University of Florida
Studying nursing, nutrition, animal science, political science, business, and journalism
Activities- tennis, investment club, service organizations, teaching assistantships, jobs at the Reitz Union, Tutoring Zone, Gainesville Health and Fitness, O’Connel Center
Relationship Statuses- 2 long distance boyfriends, 1 in-town casual dating, and 3 single
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Language Lenses
-Syntax-Context-Utterances-Voice-Purpose
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Syntax-Capitalization
From SaltyChic: Queen latifa, michael Jordan, usher, pDiddy, and the guy from the stocked fridge video
From St. Patty: I want a big salad. Zaxbys? Designer Greens?From SaltyChic: Designer greens sounds good!
From Orlando: Are you still looking for roommates?From Nurse: YES!!! Why…? Don’t u get my hopes ups!
• First letter of EVERY text was capitalized due to automatic settings
• All others for proper nouns and beginning sentences were random (even within a single participant’s conversations)
• Used to show enthusiasm
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Syntax- PunctuationFrom Roommate: Uggh ran into annoying internFrom SaltyChic: On Campus? That’s so scary. I hope I never run into herFrom Roommate: Hahaha Peace out Spanish class
From LilyPulitzer: Idk where I’m going- prob midtown. I’ll be at mothers at 9am that day :)
From Nurse: Lol silly girl. I’ll be on the hospital floor amusing my patients of my funny best friend at mothers at 9am ;)
From Broseph: They are way to peppy in the morning. Literally one skipped into
assembly this morning. At 8am.
Research-Showed little use of punctuation except in cases when “?” was used to make the phrase interrogative
Common Trends-Part of the person’s texting “voice”-Used to break messages into phrases, most commonly dropped at the end of a message-Give emphasis
Emoticons/Slang-Emoticons used to end sentences :)-abbreviations used at end instead of traditional punctuation haha
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Syntax- Spelling/Grammar
From SaltyChic: We’re forming a smooth jazz band. What will you contribute?
From Blondie: Manager maybe? I’m not musicly inclined
From Roommate: You missed to pop oFrom SaltyChic: Why were the police there?
From TennisGirl: Wow, you sent me a ext that was more than 2 words:)
• Largely correct- typos most common error
• Meaning never lost
“I think all grammar in texts should be correct - it gives off the impression that you're uneducated otherwise. The only exception being abbreviations to make a text shorter.”
~Nurse
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Syntax- Slang/Abb
From LilyPulitzer: St. Augustine. It was supposed to be savannah, buttttt then someone went and broke a set of French doors costing the frat over 3k bc no one would s
From LilyPultizer: ay who all it was, so as a punishment b/c they had to, the money came out of formal budget
From Nurse: St aug will be beautiful too-that’s my fav fl city :)
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AbbreviationsLol Idk Haha GottaR u O NOLA FmlAbt Wanna Ok, K HuhEmails W Ya FyiB4 Omg Btw SuckaWkend Wed Prob St AugT/tshirt Gonna In 20 KindaDis Ville Gville Fb P.S. 40s Am Pm Nyu Luv PK UF
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Soo…is there syntax in texts?
Lindfors-“young children use whatever means they have to communicate” (37)-“Attention to form doesn’t precede a focus on meaning, nor does it substitute for it or take precedence over it.” (49)
Kutz-“apparent messiness and underlying sense of structure” (86)- Chomsky’s deep vs. surface structure (87)
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Context
From OhioGator: Cassie is preggers? Ahhhhhhhhhhhh
From SexyMexi: Yup! Koalas bred, hogs bred and bonobos bred. Hopefully we get a lot of babies!!!
From OhioGator: Omgggggg sooooooo excited!!!!!!!!!!
From OhioGator: Who is cassie’s baby daddy, anakka? (sp?)
From SexyMexi: Yes i believe so
From OhioGator: Steve just texted me ;-)
From OhioGator: Steve just texted me :-/
From OhioGator: Steve just texted me :)
From OhioGator: Steve just texted me :(
• Emoticons• Previous shared experiences• Subculture
From SaltyChic: Sunday funday?
From Mr.Ireland: What are you doing on Wedneday?From St.Patty: Getting Schiavo’d
From OhioGator: P.S. I’m on farmville From Tally: Hahahaha yes Farmville!!!!
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Building Context• Vygotsky
“If the thoughts of two people coincide, perfect understanding can be achieved.” (139)
• Bruner“the culture soon equips us with new powers of
narration through its tool kit..” (80)
• Kutz“different ways are absorbed into the larger,
collaborative and cooperative act of meaning making” (64)
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Utterances “Usually they are just passing thoughts.”
• Conversations– Rejoinders
(Bakhtin 72)– Coherence and
Cohesion(Kutz 300)
• Speech Plan“embrace, understand, and sense the speaker’s speech plan or speech will, which determines the entire utterance, its length and boundaries” (Bakhtin 77)
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Utterances
From StPatty: I just counted the weeks left of school and almost vomited.
From LDBF: How many?From StPatty: 7!From LDBF: Holy crap!
From OhioGator, 12:42pm: Someone decided to play their guitar at 9:53am so I had to migrate to pemby’s bed. Someone is gonna get cut tomorrow morning if this happens again
From Tally, 2:35pm: I cant believe they did it two days in a row. I would be furious.
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From OhioGator, 5:10pm: Guitar againnnnnnnnnnnn argh
From Tally, 5:33pm: Hahahaha
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From OhioGator, 12:19am: Oh goddddd just heard a guitar wtfffffffff
From Tally, 2:50am: Nooooway….That is so hilarious.
From SaltyChic: Travolta in jeans
From Roommate: I have your paycheck
From St.Patty: Have you seen the Smart Mop informercial?! I want!
From OhioGator: Just saw a bumper sticker that said, “Milk sucks, Got margaritas?”
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VoiceFrom TennisBoy: Abt to work (1)
From TennisBoy: Eh (8)
From TennisBoy: Busy sorry (5)
From TennisGirl: Awwwww, that stinks! (4)
From TennisGirl: Ooooh what a lucky ducky!!!! (6)
From Tennis Girl: Whaaaaaaaat?????? (2)
From Nurse: No u didn’t…what did u say??? (7)
From Nurse: No really what did u say? (3)
From Nures: Side of queso for my chips please! Love uuuuu (9)
1. Abt to work
2. Whaaaaaaaat??????
3. No really what did u say?
4. Awwwww, that stinks!
5. Slept ok
6. Ooooh what a lucky ducky!!!!
7. No u didn’t…what did u say???
8. Eh
9. Side of queso for my chips please! Love u
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Voice– Word length
• Shorter for boys
– Message length• Only 2 people went over 160 characters for 1 message
– Punctuation• Lots vs little
– Abbreviations/Slang• Personal preferences
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Voice- Code Switching?From Dad: Then maybe they should get their
act together
From Sister: Cool! Thanks, but I don’t want you to have to spend. I’ll check it out.
From Friend: Howd your first day go?
From Work: That’s ok, thanks for getting back to me!
Dad Sibling Friend Co-Worker
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Voice • Lindfors
“We inevitably bring our individual selves into our written communication with others, just as we do in our face-to-face conversations.” (82)
• Bakhtin“Various genres can reveal various layers and facets of the
individual personality.” (63)
• Kutz“We can educate ourselves for participation in a
multidiscoursed society.” (163)Is texting its own discourse community?
“I think I type and write the same way I talk”
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PurposeChildren’s Speech
• Instrumental• Regulatory• Interactional• Personal• Heuristic• Imaginative• Representational
(Halliday)
Texting• Instrumental• Regulatory• Interactional• Personal• Heuristic• Imaginative• Representational
•Information Giving -Planning -Story telling
•Information Seeking -Ambient Awareness
•Task-Avoidance
“To make plans, tell friends short stories, ask simple questions, remind friends of inside jokes to make them laugh or smile, tell loved ones I love and/or miss them, make plans, communicate when I cannot talk on the phone (in class or the library)”
“to communicate quick thoughts to my friends or to receive an answer for a question quickly”
“to communicate short thoughts that don't require a formal phone call”
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Implications
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Digital Natives
How do we play?
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Nelson and Gruendal
“The development of topic relevant dialogue structure may profitably be viewed as a function
of building up of shared social scripts which specify the structure and content of familiar
events in the child's experience.”
What is the social script of texting?
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Classroom Management• Multi-taskers
-How do we engage students who are used to typing/listening/interacting all the time?
-What is think time? How do we reflect?
• Ambient awareness-Students communicate to
everyone, anytime-Easy transition to language for learning?
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How can we incorporate familiar tools and experiences into students’ education?
Does it require critical thinking skills?
What is salient and meaningful to students?
ClassroomTools
“Writing needs to be a friend, and it needs to be
a tool” (Lindfors, 33)
Community building, interactive lessons
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Writing Instruction• Students already…
– Make phoneme/grapheme representations– Construct meaning– Choose concise, strong words
• Extra emphasis on….– Correct spelling– Complete sentences!– Formal tone/language
• What skill sets do students need?
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f u cn read dis u spnd wA 2 mch tym txtng ;)