Shortening and Clipping in Serbian Text Messaging
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https://doi.org/10.18485/analiff.2020.32.2.18Keywords:
text messages, Serbian, shortening, clipping, elisionAbstract
The analysis of shortening and clipping in text messaging is of interest both from sociolinguistic standpoint since it is considered as a feature of this type of texts, often critized as having a negative impact on the literacy in young people, and from general linguistic aspect of a (non)morphological process of shortening words and expressions. The majority of analyzed cases that occur in the corpus of Serbian text messages show that it is indeed the young texters who use shortened forms of words more often than people over thirty years of age, but the young generation also use them in line with spontaneous oral language and with usage of quite a few shortened forms as prescribed by the orthographic rules, than some deviant, irregular ways. Rather, these shortenings have the roles of confirming in-group relations, spontaneity and easy everyday communication between friends, reflecting informality of spontaneous, everyday oral communication, and often showing subtlety in implicit knowledge of the language rules.
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