Table of Contents

Contents: Private email and text messages (SMS): linguistic features of the involved written but conceptually oral language; syntactic and lexical reductions; spelling tendencies and rules; emoticons - A comparison between single and linked SMS as well as between SMS and telegrams - A discussion of Koch and Oesterreicher's model; email and SMS dialogues; email and text messages compared to letter mail and telephone conversation; gratification and media richness theory - MMS: proportion of image to text, picture categories, MMS dialogues - Linguistic changes: new trends - old features; Anglicisms in (Swiss-)German emails and text messages.

About the Author

The Author: Carmen Frehner (born 1978) studied English and German at the University of Zurich and Aberdeen (Scotland). She graduated in 2005 and received her doctor's degree in English linguistics in 2006. The author currently works as an English and German teacher in Zurich.

Reviews

"Die Studie von Carmen Frehner uberzeugt durch die Formulierung und Fokussierung der Forschungsfrage, die Auswahl und Umsetzung der Methoden und die Prazision und Vorsicht bei der Argumentation." (Oliver Bendel, Zeitschrift fur Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft)