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The Impact of Text Messaging on Standard English

Prøysen, Stine
Master thesis
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2009-05-14
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Many people claim that text messaging is ruining Standard English, and that there will be a decline in literacy because of this new phenomenon with all its abbreviations and deviant spellings. My hypothesis 1 was that students do not keep the language of text messaging separate from Standard English, and that they bring abbreviations and incomplete sentences into their school work. Hypothesis 2 was that students do not know the old and standard abbreviations and that they offer new interpretations of these. Hypothesis 3 was that there is considerable variation in the interpretation of abbreviations that are frequently used in text messaging. I analysed over one hundrer essays from high school students in order to test hypothesis 1, and handed out a questionnaire in order to test hypotheses 2 and 3. All of my hypotheses were corroborated, which means that the text messaging phenomenon is something worth studying in the future.
 
Mange klager på at sms-språket ødelegger standardspråket. Hypotese nr 1 gikk ut på at studenter ikke holdt sms-språket adskilt fra standardspråket som forventes brukt i skolen. Denne ble testet ved hjelp av stiler high school-elever i USA hadde skrevet. Hypotese nr 2 gikk ut på at dagens ungdom ikke forstår de gamle forkortelsene, og istedet tolker disse i lys av elektronisk kommunikasjon. Hypotese nr 3 gikk ut på at forkortelsene som blir brukt i sms-språket blir tolket ulikt av ulike personer, noe som gir grobunn for misforståelser. Hypotese 2 og 3 ble testet av et spørreskjema. Alle hypotesene ble bekreftet av funn fra stilene og spørreskjemaene, hvilket vil si at sms-språket definitivt er et tema som er verdt å studere i fremtiden.
 
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