With the coming of the Digital Era,numbers,abbreviations and signs have been widely used in our spoken and written language.The trend of digital language has appeared in modern language.At first,the appearance of digi...With the coming of the Digital Era,numbers,abbreviations and signs have been widely used in our spoken and written language.The trend of digital language has appeared in modern language.At first,the appearance of digital language brings convenience for both learners and native speakers.E.g.88(Bye),TV… Later,however,the learners begin to acquire digital words rather than the original one.For instance,many people of non-English speaking countries only understand the meaning of VIP rather than "very important person".Therefore,the digitalization of language is playing a very significant role in today's language spreading.My project is devoted to exploring types,features and causes of the digitalization of language,in order to find out its influence on language development.My project falls into a questionnaire and four chapters in the body part.The questionnaire is designed to help us find the types,features and causes of language digitalization.In the body part,the first chapter is to show the types of digital language.The second chapter is to explain the features of language digitalization,that is,informality,uncertainty,principle of economy and stratification.The third chapter is to explore the causes of formation of digital language.By analyzing data from the questionnaire,I find four reasons that cause the formation of digitalized language.The fourth chapter is to discuss digital language's influence on language development,that is,whether digitalized language will improve or block language development.展开更多
文摘With the coming of the Digital Era,numbers,abbreviations and signs have been widely used in our spoken and written language.The trend of digital language has appeared in modern language.At first,the appearance of digital language brings convenience for both learners and native speakers.E.g.88(Bye),TV… Later,however,the learners begin to acquire digital words rather than the original one.For instance,many people of non-English speaking countries only understand the meaning of VIP rather than "very important person".Therefore,the digitalization of language is playing a very significant role in today's language spreading.My project is devoted to exploring types,features and causes of the digitalization of language,in order to find out its influence on language development.My project falls into a questionnaire and four chapters in the body part.The questionnaire is designed to help us find the types,features and causes of language digitalization.In the body part,the first chapter is to show the types of digital language.The second chapter is to explain the features of language digitalization,that is,informality,uncertainty,principle of economy and stratification.The third chapter is to explore the causes of formation of digital language.By analyzing data from the questionnaire,I find four reasons that cause the formation of digitalized language.The fourth chapter is to discuss digital language's influence on language development,that is,whether digitalized language will improve or block language development.
