Gender differences and culture in english short message service language among malay university students

• Main Authors: Yuen, Chee Keong, Saran Kaur Gill,, Maisarah Noorezam,, Asma’a Abdulrazaq,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2012
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5373/1/18_2_7_yuenck.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5373/; http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/3L/3LHome.html

This paper examined the sociolinguistic aspect of Short Message Service (SMS) language, particularly in identifying gender differences and in revealing how Malay culture could be represented in SMS texts. The research applied both qualitative and quantitative approaches on 20 Malay postgraduate stud...