Hypothesis: Texting has more in common with spoken language then formal writing!
Introduction: Since the stone ages communication has been a key part of survival for humans. Communication is constantly being developed in order to be more effective. But insanely in the last 28 years communication has developed more than the last 200,000 years. Through the invention of the cell phone the development of communication has flourished through texting, in our texting informal language features were introduced, these feature were previously only used in spoken language. Examples of this are effects that create sound effects, paralinguistic features, devices for brevity and informality.
Body Paragraph 1: In spoken language often humans use sound effects to communicate to one another. It has been another development to effective communication. For an example in everyday conversation, a typical thing you might here is for someone to laugh. So when texting people will often say “haha” to indicate that they found something funny. Sound effects like these have been implemented into text language in order to portray emotion. These sound effects are a way of communicating a message effectively and efficiently.
Body Paragraph 2: Spoken language interactions are hugely implemented by body language and facial expressions. The meaning of the words you say are dictated by your body language. These paralinguistic effects are also used in texting through emojis. When using emojis you can replace the body language lost in non face to face interactions in texting. There a thousands of emojis to mirror what you are feeling at every single moment. An example of this is when someone is happy they smile, so when texting and you are feeling happy you can use the smiling emoji ‘?’. This is another reason that texting has more in common with spoken language then formal writing as you can use paralinguistic effects.
Body Paragraph 3: Texting like spoken language has been developed to be more effective. A key measure to effective communication is efficiency this can be seen throughout texting and spoken language. This can be seen when people use devices for brevity. In texting there are hundreds of brevity and some are even used in spoken language as well. A common abbreviation used in both texting and spoken language is ‘k’. This is a abbreviation for okay, it allows people to communicate their understanding to another person almost instant. Texting everyday is becoming more similar to spoken language and this is yet another example of why texting has more common with spoken language then formal writing.
Body Paragraph 4: Texting and spoken language are filled with informal language. Almost every conversation you hear will have slang or informal language and this is also in text.
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