Publications

Publication details [#45848]

Haggan, Madeline. 2007. Text messaging in Kuwait. Is the medium the message? Multilingua 26 (4) : 427–449.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language choice | language mixing | message1 | telephone | text

Language as a subject

Arabic | English

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This article examines linguistic and cultural questions related to young Kuwaiti's language choice in mobile phone text messaging: the English alphabet, the recently available Arabic keypad or a mixture of both, as for instance the use of English characters for transcription of Arabic texts.