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Japanese Deaf Adolescents' Textisms

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  • Yoshiko Okuyama

    (Department of Languages, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI, USA)

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This study investigated how texting was used by deaf adolescents in Japan. A small corpus of dyadic messages exchanged via cell phone between 2 deaf high-school students at a residential school was collected to examine the features of unconventional spellings typically used in text messages, or “textisms.” The characteristics of this text-message corpus were analyzed along with the factors associated with texting behaviors of other deaf adolescents in their school in order to explore the features of textisms adopted by these deaf adolescents. The study found that in the pair's 356 messages, the deaf adolescents adopted characteristics of textisms very similar to those used by the hearing adolescents studied by other researchers on Japanese mobile communication.

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  • Yoshiko Okuyama, 2014. "Japanese Deaf Adolescents' Textisms," International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning (IJCBPL), IGI Global, vol. 4(2), pages 20-32, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jcbpl0:v:4:y:2014:i:2:p:20-32
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