Thursday 29 September 2011

The socio-linguistics of SMS

Since the late 1990’s the use of short messaging system (SMS) or “texting” has seen phenomenal growth. Statistics show that on average there are more than 280 000 SMS messages sent every hour in Norway, that is more than 6.7 million per day and this in a country with only 4 million inhabitants (Sandvin, Dagfinrud and Sæther 2002).

http://www.richardling.com/papers/2005_SMS_socio-linguistics.pdf

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