Code-switching and Gender in SMS Texting - Achili, Nora
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With the noted advancement of mobile phone technologies, SMS texting emerged as a perfectly new mode of communication that challenges the conventional rules of standard languages. To gain insights into SMS newly-adopted language, the present work overarching goal was to look into Algerian EFL students' SMS texting practices. Given the texters' multilingual context, code-switching and language choice in gendered groups were examined. The study showed similar code-switching behaviours among male and female texters. As for language choice, the data revealed males and females using languages differently and for different reasons.…mehr

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With the noted advancement of mobile phone technologies, SMS texting emerged as a perfectly new mode of communication that challenges the conventional rules of standard languages. To gain insights into SMS newly-adopted language, the present work overarching goal was to look into Algerian EFL students' SMS texting practices. Given the texters' multilingual context, code-switching and language choice in gendered groups were examined. The study showed similar code-switching behaviours among male and female texters. As for language choice, the data revealed males and females using languages differently and for different reasons.
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Nora Achili è docente presso il Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere dell'Università di Boumerdes, in Algeria. Da anni insegna linguistica, metodologia della ricerca, analisi del discorso e altre materie correlate alle scienze linguistiche. I suoi campi di studio e interesse sono le lingue digitali e gli studi di genere.