How R U 2day? Features of Netspeak - Acronyms, Rebus Techniques and Emoticons

Intermediate Examination Paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: None, University of Bern, language: English, abstract: In the course of this paper I shall analyse abbreviations found in four chat sessions. My main hypothesis is that Internet users have adopted several ways of abbreviating in order to make their contributions more effic...