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Title
Localizing global trends in sms texting language among students in Ghana and Tanzania |
Full text
http://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15395; http://ul.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A15395/attachment/ATT-0/ |
Date
2017 |
Author(s)
Dzahene-Quarshie, Josephine |
Contributor(s)
University of Ghana; Universität Leipzig |
Abstract
The main motivation for the development of various strategies to represent written text in a concise way among mobile phone users all over the world is the need to communicate full messages in abridged forms in order to save time, energy and money. These alternative forms of words and phrases are especially employed by the youth. In this paper, the innovative adaptation of global SMS texting trends in the form of intricate abbreviation and contraction of words and phrases in Kiswahili in Tanzania is examined and compared with trends in SMS texting language in English in Ghana. Using empirical data made up of SMS texts from students of the University of Dar es Salaam and University of Ghana, localized as well as convergent and divergent trends and the socio-pragmatic motivations of the phenomena are analysed and discussed. |
Subject(s)
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/496; ddc:496; SMS; Globalisierung; Lokalisierung; Swahili; Ghanaischen Pidgin Englisch Sprache; SMS, Globalisierung, Lokalisierung, Swahili, Ghanaischen Pidgin Englisch Sprache; SMS texting, globalization, localization, Swahili, Ghanaian Pidgin English |
Language
eng |
Relation
urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-220584; qucosa:15405 |
Type of publication
doc-type:article; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; doc-type:Text |
Source
Swahili Forum 23 (2016), S. 1-20 |
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
Identifier
urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-220407 |
Repository
Dresden - Hochschulschriftenserver
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