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Typology of writing systems /
This paper aims at determining the relationship between writing in chats and features from different writing systems. Although net users do not realise it, they recreate features mainly from morphographic systems and consonantal scripts and, consequently, they seem to be searching for a more economi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2013.
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| Colección: | Benjamins current topics ;
v. 51. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This paper aims at determining the relationship between writing in chats and features from different writing systems. Although net users do not realise it, they recreate features mainly from morphographic systems and consonantal scripts and, consequently, they seem to be searching for a more economical way of conveying meaning through writing. When carrying out a corpus-based study, involving 90 minutes of real-time conversations in a Portuguese chat programme, we observed tendencies concerning spelling changes: the syllable onset is usually preserved, which resembles consonantal scripts; the. |
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| Notas: | Typology of Writing Systems special issue developed out of papers delivered during the Association of Written Language and Literacy's (AWLL) 6th International Workshop on Writing Systems on the Typology of Writing Systems theme, held at the University of Braunschweig, Germany, on 18-19 September 2008. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027271853 9027271852 9027202702 9789027202703 9781299640320 129964032X |