Across
- 2. the theory that says speech and writing are different
- 3. the descriptivist theorist who identified 7 differences between speech and writing
- 4. This theorists looked at technology-driven communication and decided it had the best bits of both speech and writing, but also the worst.
- 5. Clare Wood argues that the heaviest text users were also the most ____ users of language generally
- 6. the prescriptivist commentator who really, really dislikes txt tlk (one of the Johns!)
- 8. Joan Lee looked at texters' ____, and found that heavy texters used a much smaller range
- 9. The natural metaphor Crystal uses to describe technological developments ("language in <answer>")
Down
- 1. Cingle and Sundar found a strong _____ correlation between txt use and understanding of grammar
- 3. The technical name for changing your register according to your context
- 7. Another John, this time who calls texting a "linguistic miracle at our fingertips"