In this assessment I will be exploring the view that speaking and texting interactions can be very creative forms of language.
Text is very much influenced by spoken language due to the fact that text originates from spoken language and that many features of spoken language are incorporated into text, not exactly but to an extent where it is understandable. Some of the main distinctive features of text language is that it mainly consists of abbreviations, back channelling, slang and emotion icon that express a persons expression or feeling.
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October 14, 2012 at 1:18 pm
This would make a good introduction to the analysis the question calls for.
What you need to do now is to use specific examples to explore every point you make, for example.
“Text language is influenced by spoken language in many ways, some obvious, some less so. This happens because much of the communication that occurs via the internet or mobile phones is interpersonal, just like speaking, and it is informal – often between friends. A simple example of a device that originated from speaking that now dominates text communication is the use of emoticons to suggest a facial expression – like a smile”
Can you see that if you begin like that, a whole essay could be written on this proposition? It will demand that level of detail and thorough explanation.
The next step for you is to choose something else from your introduction and expand on it in the same way: abbreviations, perhaps?
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