Sms Messaging on Baguio
Balinas, Austeen Llenor
Comm 199
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Final Thesis Proposal
I. INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study
Text messaging or what we commonly call texting is originally derived from SMS or short messaging system; it refers to the exchange of abbreviated words, being sent from one mobile phone to another (Vosloo, 2009). Mobile phones were first created during mid-1990 (Thurlow & Poff, 2011), and were primarily for business purposes (Salango, 2010). As Vosloo said in his article, that it was in the year 2003 where issues about texting such as that it bastardizes the literacy skill of students, first arise as cited in (Brown-Owens, Eason, & Lader, 2003), where in three years later when Ofcom reported that 1500 children in UK already had their own mobile phones (Ofcom, 2006). There had been a rapid growth regarding the use of electronic devices as a means of communication, today it has been a necessity for a student just as one needs writing instruments such as pen and paper (Lankin, 2012). Year 2010 almost 3,339 texts were sent by an average teenager per month which is basically equivalent to six texts per hour (Parr, 2010), which if will be computed is equivalent to almost 3-4 subjects in school of an average public high school student and just this year 2011 the CMO Council has reported that 1.14 tons of messages were sent in the said year (Factbrowser, 2013). Year 2010 when Philippines first called as the “Texting Capital of the World”, where 160 million messages are sent everyday by the 80 million Filipinos (AHN Media Corp., 2010).
Language had always played a vital role in our everyday communication it “is the most important of all the instruments of civilization” (Richards, 1986) and what makes me fascinated by it is that it is not only bounded by spoken words and its pragmatics and syntax but language gives us a glimpse of one’s culture. According to Saussure language has three parts.
Comm 199
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Final Thesis Proposal
I. INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study
Text messaging or what we commonly call texting is originally derived from SMS or short messaging system; it refers to the exchange of abbreviated words, being sent from one mobile phone to another (Vosloo, 2009). Mobile phones were first created during mid-1990 (Thurlow & Poff, 2011), and were primarily for business purposes (Salango, 2010). As Vosloo said in his article, that it was in the year 2003 where issues about texting such as that it bastardizes the literacy skill of students, first arise as cited in (Brown-Owens, Eason, & Lader, 2003), where in three years later when Ofcom reported that 1500 children in UK already had their own mobile phones (Ofcom, 2006). There had been a rapid growth regarding the use of electronic devices as a means of communication, today it has been a necessity for a student just as one needs writing instruments such as pen and paper (Lankin, 2012). Year 2010 almost 3,339 texts were sent by an average teenager per month which is basically equivalent to six texts per hour (Parr, 2010), which if will be computed is equivalent to almost 3-4 subjects in school of an average public high school student and just this year 2011 the CMO Council has reported that 1.14 tons of messages were sent in the said year (Factbrowser, 2013). Year 2010 when Philippines first called as the “Texting Capital of the World”, where 160 million messages are sent everyday by the 80 million Filipinos (AHN Media Corp., 2010).
Language had always played a vital role in our everyday communication it “is the most important of all the instruments of civilization” (Richards, 1986) and what makes me fascinated by it is that it is not only bounded by spoken words and its pragmatics and syntax but language gives us a glimpse of one’s culture. According to Saussure language has three parts.
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