The Impact of Texting on Communication
Lynne Truss says texting impacts communication through the changes in the way individuals communicate, new manners, and a new secret form of communication. Known for her 2004 book Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Lynne Truss is an English writer and Journalist. (Lunsford, Brody, Ede, Moss, Papper, & Walters, pg 939) In the article used, Truss discusses her tendencies when texting. Her texting tendencies include typing out incredibly lengthy messages, constantly correct grammar as well as spelling, as well as her battle with proper texting etiquette. Lynne Truss has written several novels and comic radio dramas. She is a regular columnist and radio commentator. (Lunsford …show more content…
One such way humans communicate even if they do not understand the other’s language, is through emotion. Robert M. Krauss performed an experiment where he played some Japanese soap operas clips for American students, and American soap opera clips for Japanese students. The students were then asked to identify the emotions in the clips. Krauss’s results lead him to conclude that, “a large share of the emotional content of the scenes was encoded nonverbally; and emotional expressiveness of the sort typically found in popular televised melodrama is relatively transparent cross-culturally.” (Krauss pg 295-305) Another nonverbal form of communication, is gesturing. Gestures help to convey emotions, invitations, or thoughts, and can vary from pointing, to even complete sign language. (Carter) Texting is yet another form of nonverbal communication. Yet unlike other forms of communication, it is available to everyone with a cell phone which allows it to be made available to a large percentage of the world. Rather than having to speak to someone face to face, an individual may choose to text their person of interest no matter how far away they …show more content…
Much like love letters, text messages are personal little notes meant for only the recipient. These notes are not always intended to be brought from the private side of relationships into the open. Texting is discrete and a much easier way of passing notes or tidbits of information along to the recipient than arranging a personal meeting every time. The convenience of texting is comparable to writing a quick note to a loved one and leaving it somewhere for them to find. Another key to the secrecy of texting is being able to easily send anything desired. There are some individuals who may use it to send funny cat videos, and others may send paragraphs long confessions. (Which goes against the aforementioned texting manners.) Finally, texting is considered safer than other forms of communication such as e-mails, or handwritten letters. Letters are easily intercepted, and there is constant talk of e-mail scams. For example, Nigerian e-mail scams are constantly going around and typically trick the user into sending a large sum of money to the e-mail sender no matter how ridiculous the scenario may seem. (Smith, pg
Lynne Truss says texting impacts communication through the changes in the way individuals communicate, new manners, and a new secret form of communication. Known for her 2004 book Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Lynne Truss is an English writer and Journalist. (Lunsford, Brody, Ede, Moss, Papper, & Walters, pg 939) In the article used, Truss discusses her tendencies when texting. Her texting tendencies include typing out incredibly lengthy messages, constantly correct grammar as well as spelling, as well as her battle with proper texting etiquette. Lynne Truss has written several novels and comic radio dramas. She is a regular columnist and radio commentator. (Lunsford …show more content…
One such way humans communicate even if they do not understand the other’s language, is through emotion. Robert M. Krauss performed an experiment where he played some Japanese soap operas clips for American students, and American soap opera clips for Japanese students. The students were then asked to identify the emotions in the clips. Krauss’s results lead him to conclude that, “a large share of the emotional content of the scenes was encoded nonverbally; and emotional expressiveness of the sort typically found in popular televised melodrama is relatively transparent cross-culturally.” (Krauss pg 295-305) Another nonverbal form of communication, is gesturing. Gestures help to convey emotions, invitations, or thoughts, and can vary from pointing, to even complete sign language. (Carter) Texting is yet another form of nonverbal communication. Yet unlike other forms of communication, it is available to everyone with a cell phone which allows it to be made available to a large percentage of the world. Rather than having to speak to someone face to face, an individual may choose to text their person of interest no matter how far away they …show more content…
Much like love letters, text messages are personal little notes meant for only the recipient. These notes are not always intended to be brought from the private side of relationships into the open. Texting is discrete and a much easier way of passing notes or tidbits of information along to the recipient than arranging a personal meeting every time. The convenience of texting is comparable to writing a quick note to a loved one and leaving it somewhere for them to find. Another key to the secrecy of texting is being able to easily send anything desired. There are some individuals who may use it to send funny cat videos, and others may send paragraphs long confessions. (Which goes against the aforementioned texting manners.) Finally, texting is considered safer than other forms of communication such as e-mails, or handwritten letters. Letters are easily intercepted, and there is constant talk of e-mail scams. For example, Nigerian e-mail scams are constantly going around and typically trick the user into sending a large sum of money to the e-mail sender no matter how ridiculous the scenario may seem. (Smith, pg