Localizing global trends in sms texting language among students in Ghana and Tanzania

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 es...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dzahene-Quarshie, Josephine
Other Authors: University of Ghana, Department of Modern Languages. School of Languages
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig 2017
Subjects:
SMS
Online Access:http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-220407
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-220407
http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/22040/SF_23_Dzahene-Quarshie.pdf