Talk2013
Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
John McWhorter (TED)
Argues that texting is not degraded writing but an emergent written register modelled on speech, with its own developing grammar of markers like LOL.
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Foundations & Overviews
A topic within Sociolinguistics, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
Reading on Foundations & Overviews
22 works
Paper1972
Some Principles of Linguistic Methodology
William Labov
Argues that sociolinguistic data drawn from spontaneous vernacular speech are more reliable than elicited introspective judgments, and lays out the methodological principles that let a linguist reach intersubjective agreement about what a speech community actually does despite the observer's paradox.
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