Technology

• What are textisms?

  Language used through text-

  Emojis

  Variant Orthography

  Elision

  Clipping

  Contraction

  Elliptical sentences
• What does CMC stand for? What is it?

  Computer mediated communication; communication using technology like texting and email (not face to face)
• David Crystal's language economy

  Textisms are used for practicality
• Informalisation (Goodman)


  Overtime we are seeing an increased informality in our language
• Telephone framework - Schlegoff

  There is a framing as to how a phone call should go.
• Which pair of linguists argue that blogs adopt a vernacular literary style?

  Hamilton and Barton