The new "Technology Texts"

As we know, in terms of language we can find written and oral language. The written one is the planned one, the one that gots delayed interacion and discourse markers; and the oral one is spontaneus, it is based on instant interaction and related to tuning and pitching. It is important to mention the elements of context that both of this types of language has: Audience, Purpose and Topic. To show the right type of language that we want we gotta make a good use of Register (word choice, related to lexis). According to the different text types, we can find commonly: narrative, persuasive, informative and argumentative. Contemporary society has included new ones: such as websites, e-mails and text messages.

One method employed in writing about this new types of text is that we have a constant use of CONTRACTIONS, words like "Don't, They're, It's and Doesn't.

In e-mails we have:

• Punctuation marks may be omitted
• Prosodic features through lower or upper cases
• Abbrebiations
• Emoticons

In text messages we have:

• Shortened words
• Phonetic spelling
• Letter Homophones
• Number Homophones
• Grammatical compression

In many cases both of this features are included.