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Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
David Crystal
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Description for Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
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.
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. "It is bleak, bald, sad shorthand," writes a commentator in the UK Guardian. "It masks dyslexia, poor spelling, and mental laziness." Exam answers using textese and reports that examiners find them acceptable have led to headlines in the tabloids and leaders in the qualities. Do young people text as much as people think? Do adults? ... Read more
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. "It is bleak, bald, sad shorthand," writes a commentator in the UK Guardian. "It masks dyslexia, poor spelling, and mental laziness." Exam answers using textese and reports that examiners find them acceptable have led to headlines in the tabloids and leaders in the qualities. Do young people text as much as people think? Do adults? ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
269g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199571338
SKU
V9780199571338
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About David Crystal
David Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. He has written or edited over 100 books and published numerous articles for scholarly, professional, and general readerships, in fields ranging from forensic linguistics and ELT to the liturgy and Shakespeare. His books include the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (2nd edn 1997), the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the ... Read more
Reviews for Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
Crystal's combination of enthusiasm and erudition is persuasive. I'm a convert. Txting is gr8!
Brandon Robshaw, The Independent On Sunday
A jolly meditation, helped by the enthusiasm of a linguist revelling in newly coined lingo.
Tom Lamont, The Observer
Brandon Robshaw, The Independent On Sunday
A jolly meditation, helped by the enthusiasm of a linguist revelling in newly coined lingo.
Tom Lamont, The Observer