Cellphone as a Written Medium: A Discourse Study of the Persian Humorous SMSes
Subject Areas : Research in Iranian classical literature
بهروز
محمودی بختیاری
1
آرزو
آديبيك
2
Keywords: SMS cell- phone implicature humor,
Abstract :
The growing use of cell-phones in the modern society, regarding the various services they provide, has changed both our interpersonal and verbal communications. Being of relatively low cost, and able to simultaneously send a message for larger groups of people, SMS has indeed turned into a written medium which has resulted in a new culture in sending messages, especially among the youth. Considering the importance of this new way of communications, the present article studies its widly used application, i.e. the humors sent through SMS. The purpose of the research is to study, from a discourse analysis perspective, the most common techniques, and the most dominant approaches in forming humors. Having analysed the data, we found that in most cases the Grician Co-operative Maxims have been violated in different ways.