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What is Homophones

Chapter 22
Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction
In the context of this study, homophone is synonymous with phonetic spelling. It also refers to writing down a word as it is pronounced. For instance, when therefore is written as dia4, we have an instance of homophone.
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Spelling Practices in Text Messaging
Akinmade Timothy Akande (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria) and Olayiwola Timothy Akinwale (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-773-2.ch022
Abstract
The sociolinguistic functions that text messaging plays in Nigeria cannot be over-emphasized. This chapter not only highlights the functions of text messages in Nigeria but also examines the strategies used by students of Obafemi Awolowo University in the composition of text messages. One hundred and thirty-four text messages, either sent or received, by volunteer participants whose ages range between sixteen and twenty-four years, were analyzed. The chapter showed that, although some words are spelt the same way by different texters, there is need to standardize the spelling conventions in SMS so as to make it more systematic and less chaotic. Findings revealed that among the strategies such as clipping, abbreviation, initialization, phonetic spelling is the most commonly used by Nigerian students.
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