@article{Iskandar_2020, title={LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAMS STUDENTS’ TEXT MESSAGES TO THEIR LECTURERS }, volume={19}, url={https://journal.unj.ac.id/unj/index.php/bahtera/article/view/14099}, DOI={10.21009/bahtera.191.04}, abstractNote={<p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p> <p><em>This study aims to examine the linguistic features of English and Indonesian languages in students’ text messages sent to their lecturers. Content analysis is employed </em><em>and the </em><em>data are the linguistic features identified in 1,521 students’ text messages delivered to the lecturers. The findings confirm the results of the former studies in that </em><em>the t</em><em>ypographic features of </em><em>emoticons, letter deletion, rebus writing, and phonetic spelling </em><em>and morphological features of </em><em>initialism, abbreviation, reduplication, truncation, and casual style of spoken diction</em><em>s</em><em> are </em><em>employed—the features linguistically creating a special register called textese recognized by non-standard form or textisms.&nbsp; </em><em>T</em><em>he mechanics of languages are featured by the lack of compliance with the conventional usage of full stops, commas, and capitals; even less than ten percent of spaces considered inevitably used are not conventionally emploed. Dominant uses of one-claused sentences feature the syntax of the languages</em><em>. </em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Keywords: linguistic features, text messaging, typography, morphology, and</em> <em>syntax. </em></p&gt;}, number={1}, journal={Bahtera: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra}, author={Iskandar, Ifan}, year={2020}, month={Jan.}, pages={53-82} }