Publications

Publication details [#46448]

Baron, Naomi S. and Rich Ling. 2007. Text Messaging and IM. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 26 (3) : 291–298.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

computer communication system | message1 | telephone | text analysis | text type

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper compares transmission length, emoticons, lexical shortenings and sentential punctuations in American college students' text messaging on mobile phones and in their instant messaging via computers.