Texting and speaking is what everyone does. It is part of everyday life. Texting is a substitute of phoning someone up. In a text we try to put what we want to say in that text. Texting is less time-consuming than phoning someone, furthermore you can do something else between the intervals of sending and receiving the reply.
Many features such as accent and dialect have influence texting as it is as if you are actually talking to the person as they have that type of accent.
Many features used are both in speaking and in texting.
February 4, 2013 at 7:22 pm
This is going in the right direction – especially when you refer to the sounds and paralinguistic features that transfer from speaking into texting – but you need to give detailed examples and explain them..