The effect of linguistic globalization is much felt in the language use in the domain of electronic devices for communication. The devices used for communication are English-friendly. English as an instrument of knowledge and prestige entered almost all the countries in the world. National seminars, international seminars, conferences, and workshops are being organized in English all over the world. In countries like India, where multilingual scholars interact every day, English plays a vital role of being contact language and link language. As communication is part and parcel of human life, it is also enriched by technological development. There are a number of devices being used to enhance the mode of human communication. It is being realized that English is predominantly used in all these technological devices. Internet, e-mail and Short Message Service (SMS) have become common and normal modes of communication. Computer, mobile phone and digital multimedia all have become part of everyday communication. The present generation finds it easy and convenient to communicate through these media resulting in a change in the traditional mode of communication. Among the various devices used in technical communication, it is the mobile phone that has become quite common and ordinary. Its affordability multiplies the number of users day by day. Many of its users feel uncomfortable if they do not hear their mobile ring tone even for a few minutes. Multiple versions of technologically advanced phones have come into use in the market. As mobile phone has become common and widely used in everyday communication, it is necessary to analyze the role of language used in this device and the impact of this device on language. In this paper, the author has limited his study to the texts of SMS in mobile phones and made a critical analysis of the linguistic features of English from the collected data at phonological, lexical and syntactical levels.

Among the various devices used in technical communication, it is the mobile phone that has become quite common and ordinary. Its affordability multiplies the number of users day by day. It is quite easy to handle also. Today, the mobile phone has become a part of human physique that many of its users feel uncomfortable if they do not hear their mobile ring tone even for a few minutes. Multiple versions of technologically advanced phones have come into use in the market. Everyone has become Hercules, holding the world in their hands or keeping it in their pocket as mobiles.

Mobile phone—known by other names ‘cell phone’ and ‘handy’—is technologically enhancing the users to have vocal communication and textual communication through ‘Short Message Service’, which is widely known by its acronym ‘SMS’. English is the language commonly used in composing SMS texts in mobile phones in India. Even people, who are not proficient in English, use the mobile phones for sending short messages. “The lack of proficiency in English and the technological constraint of the electronic devices urge the users to compromise the linguistic features by consolidating and amalgamating their mother tongue with English language” (David Wilson and Thayalan, 2006, p. 58).

As mobile phone has become common and widely used in everyday communication, it is useful to analyze the role of language used in this device and the impact of this device on language. In this paper we have limited our study to the texts of SMS in mobile phones and made a critical analysis of the linguistic features of English from the collected data in phonological, lexical and syntactical levels.

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