New technology texts

Written Language	Oral Language
Planned	Instant interaction
Delayed	Tone
Discourse markers	Pitch
Traditional syntax	Loosely constructed sentences

Contractions
Don't
It's
Doesn't
'aint

Elements of context

• Purpose
• Audience
• Topic

Text Messages

• Shorted words
• Phonetic spelling
• letter homophones
• number homophones
• grammaticcal compression