With the noted advancement of mobile phone technologies, SMS texting emerged as a perfectly new mode of communication that challenges the conventional rules of standard languages. To gain insights into SMS newly-adopted language, the present work overarching goal was to look into Algerian EFL students' SMS texting practices. Given the texters' multilingual context, code-switching and language choice in gendered groups were examined. The study showed similar code-switching behaviours among male and female texters. As for language choice, the data revealed males and females using languages differently and for different reasons.
Book Details: |
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ISBN-13: |
978-620-2-09255-5 |
ISBN-10: |
6202092556 |
EAN: |
9786202092555 |
Book language: |
English |
By (author) : |
Nora Achili |
Number of pages: |
176 |
Published on: |
2019-10-10 |
Category: |
General and comparative linguistics |