Wan2tlk?: everyday text messaging
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion
New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion
The expressive and conversational affordances of mobile messaging
Behaviour & Information Technology
SWITCHBOARD: telephone speech corpus for research and development
ICASSP'92 Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE international conference on Acoustics, speech and signal processing - Volume 1
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Prior research on text messaging has focused on its elliptical nature (e.g., acronyms, etc.). In contrast, the purpose of this research was to conduct an investigation of the type of words that tend to occur in text messages. Participants (N=224) retrieved their most recent text messages which were then analyzed with the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) program (Pennebaker et al., 2007a,b) and compared with parallel analyses of randomly selected telephone conversations (N=214). The results indicated numerous linguistic differences between text messages and telephone conversations. The former were linguistically simpler, more personal and more affective than the latter. Overall, the results further our understanding of the linguistic dimensions of this relatively new form of communication.