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...
Main Author: | Dzahene-Quarshie, Josephine |
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Other Authors: | University of Ghana, Department of Modern Languages. School of Languages |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
2017
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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 |
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