Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Foreword 1
5. Introduction 3
6. Articles
7. Seek&Hide 11
8. SMS experience and textisms in young adolescents 29
9. Automatic or Controlled Writing? 47
10. Development of SMS language from 2000 to 2010 67
11. Texto4Science 87
12. SMS communication as plurilingual communication 111
13. French text messages 141
14. A sociolinguistic analysis of transnational SMS practices 169
15. Negation marking in French text messages 191
16. “i didn’t spel that wrong did i. Oops” 217
17. Lol , mdr and ptdr 239
18. Index 265