NEW TECHNOLOGY TEXTS
Websites: Some websites only differ from traditional written texts in that printed material is presented on a scren raher than on a page, but other have features that make websites a distinctive form a text.
The way material is organised and presented is influenced by the dimensions of the screen.
Almost all the texts are non linear.
The information is broken down into manageable segments. That information is broken down into manageable segments means that the information can be handle in parts.
Website are more interactive that traditional written texts.
E-mail: As websites, not all e-mails differ significantly from their traditional written equivalents, some are very similar to letters.
The informality of e-mail, together with the interactive relationship beetween how sent and how recive the e-mail is more informal and do the e-mail similar to the spoken lenguage.
Significant features of e-mail language include:
- Lexis that uis often conversational.
- Greetings and farewells that ilustrate the informality of the medium.
- Grammatical features thats include loosely constructed sentences, wich resemble the natural flow of speech, sometimes the punctuation marks are omitted.
- Various methods are used to suggest the prosodic features of speech, such as stress and tone of voice.
- The use of abbreviations.
- The use of emoticons.
Text messages: The main influence on text messaging style is the need to keep messages as short and concise as possible. To do these the people who weite use:
- Words shorted. (TXT = text)
- Phonetic spelling. (LUV = love)
- Letter homophones. (C = see)
- Number homophones. (2 = to)
- Grammatical compression.
Written language:
- Planed
- Delayed interaction
- Discourse markers
Oral language:
- Spontaneous
- Instant interaction
- Tone
Text C: These text contains words shortened, from example Tues (Tuesday), Wed (Wednesday), Thurs (Thursday), Fri (Friday), Sat (Saturday), Sun (Sunday), JillyB that is how write these shortened words, do it to use less time. Other thing that have these text is that have words in capital letters for example the word BOOK, Geoff that is who write these, do it to put more enphasis in these word. Finally the text have phonetic spellings, for exapemle wanna (Want to), don´t (Do not), the narrators of these words use these to use less time writing the text in a informal way.
