TY - JOUR
TI - Language economy in short text messages
AU - Dąbrowska, Marta
TI - Language economy in short text messages
AB - 
	The purpose of this paper is to investigate some of the formal characteristics of the genre of the short text message, with a special focus on the concept of language economy, which typically underlies the use of this mode of communication. The subject of analysis are text messages in two languages, English and Polish, which are compared in terms of the methods of text shortening used by the two language systems. The elements studied include word clippings, vowel deletion, word-letter substitution, word-number substitu­tion, spelling simplification, and pronoun deletion. The aim is to establish the preferred options in the two languages and identify reasons for such choices.
VL - 2011
IS - Volume 128, Issue 1
PY - 2011
SN - 1897-1059
C1 - 2083-4624
SP - 7
EP - 21
DO - 10.2478/v10148-011-0012-6
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/language-economy-in-short-text-messages
KW - short text message
KW - language economy
KW - shortening strategies
KW - contrastive study