Original scientific article
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Communication technologies and their influence on language: the notion of convention revisited

Milena Žic Fuchs
E-mail: mzicfuch@ffzg.hr
Sveučilište u Zagrebu

Vlatko Broz
University of Zagreb

Nina Tuđman Vuković
Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Abstract: On the basis of a summation of topics that have emerged from research of text messaging in Croatian during the last ten years, other major questions and issues have also surfaced. In this paper we foc...

Original scientific article
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Communication technologies and their influence on language: Reshuffling tenses in Croatian SMS text messaging

Milena Žic Fuchs
E-mail: mzicfuch@ffzg.hr
Sveučilište u Zagrebu

Nina Tuđman Vuković
University of Zagreb
Abstract: SMS text messaging has become one of the most dominant means of communication in Croatia. With respect to their linguistic features SMS text messages have become a language variety in their own right,...