E-Text analysis

Text C 

">>JillyB<JillyB@postchat.co.uk wrote:
>>>how have the holydays been treating everyone?
>>>lots of lounging about I trust.

Jimbo@postchat.co.uk
>>Lounging and som blowing-of-the-gift-money shopping today. And
>>I don't have to be back at work until January 5!

Geoff<Geoff@postcht.co.uk wrote:
>I am doing the very same! I got a new BOOK! Off to read it!
>Jimbo, what day you wanna hang out? Tues, Wed or Thurs? Not free Fri or Sat or Sun!!!"

In the text, many features common to new technology texts are illustrated, such as the use of capital letters and exclamation marks to emphasize the message which the author is trying to communicate. Geoff wrote, through his e-mail direction: "I am doing the very same! I got a new BOOK!" As Geoff use those prosodic spellings, his exciment is graphically shown, trying to manifest the way he would say the same if he were talking with someone personally. Capital letters make a word written with those, to highlight between the others.

 The abbreviation of words, also a common characteristic of media texts, is presented through the next passage: "Tues, Wed or Thurs? Not free Fri or Sat or Sun!" These abbreviations are used in e-mails and mobile phones text messages; in this case they point to days of the week, instead of saying Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday...

The use of contraction, in phonetic spelling, in our daily life is represented in the next quotes: "What day you wanna hang out?" and "I don't have to be back at work until January 5!" In the first case Geoff tries to produce the sound of the oral combination between words want and to, with the contraction "wanna". The auxiliary verb do, is missing, then grammar is not use in a proper way. In the second one, Jimbo combines words do and not, whose contraction is don't.

As a conclusion, there is a non standard way of writing trough these new media texts promoted by new technologies, due to the use of the features that characterize those: capital letters, exclamation marks, abbreviation and contraction of words. Even though, there is carelessness for the proper use of grammatical elements (such as syntax) this emerging way of writing is useful if you want to communicate a message fastly and put a bit of expression on it.