Hello all
This week's lessons are in the PPT below. Homework is on the final slide.
The documents are:
David Crystal
John Humphrys
Clearly, Humphrys' argument could be seen as outdated, but this is actually a perfect point for your argument. Technology changes multi-modal communication. The QWERTY keyboard on smartphones ensures that it is actually more difficult to write in 'text speak'. However, the fact that it did exist has changed the way we communicate. We still do use many of the features of that JH's argues against. Have you ever written tbh, lol or btw? Have you ever used an emoticon to show to someone that your point is friendly, you feel awkward etc? As much as many of you are resistant to the idea that you may use this, as you put it, 'chav' language (I have many objections about the word Chav, which I will happily to talk to you about), I should imagine that almost all of you use some sort of features to replicate poken language in your digital communication...
This is such a fun unit!
Ms :)
This week's lessons are in the PPT below. Homework is on the final slide.
The documents are:
David Crystal
John Humphrys
Clearly, Humphrys' argument could be seen as outdated, but this is actually a perfect point for your argument. Technology changes multi-modal communication. The QWERTY keyboard on smartphones ensures that it is actually more difficult to write in 'text speak'. However, the fact that it did exist has changed the way we communicate. We still do use many of the features of that JH's argues against. Have you ever written tbh, lol or btw? Have you ever used an emoticon to show to someone that your point is friendly, you feel awkward etc? As much as many of you are resistant to the idea that you may use this, as you put it, 'chav' language (I have many objections about the word Chav, which I will happily to talk to you about), I should imagine that almost all of you use some sort of features to replicate poken language in your digital communication...
This is such a fun unit!
Ms :)
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