Sorry about this, Soren – I’ve had a tech failure and my homework update from today didn’t go onto the class site. Here’s a summary:
So: the task was to start plan your answer to the question by thinking of a strong way to group all the information you now have about the different types of language.
In your case, I think the best thing to do is decide on your three strongest points in response to the proposition, and then list under each of these the categories of analysis and then some specific devices, like:
1) Spoken language is beginning to be influenced by text communication:
a) Language devices
i) Initialisms used in speech from texting
ii) Omissions that come from assumptions about what is said that come from text language
b) Re-assimilation of paralinguistic references
i) lol instead of laughing (with an analysis of WHY someone would do that)
React!