jueves, 31 de mayo de 2012

Investigation: Linguistic change in Spanish language by the impact of social networks.


Linguistic change in Spanish language by the impact of social networks.
Nowadays the impact of the social networks and the new technologies affect the language, especially in young's between 13 to 16 years old.
Young people write without thinking of grammar rules, and they invent abbreviated words and new phrases to communicate among themselves.
These are real examples of a young girl of 14 year old:

 word
Meaning
Aylobiu

I love you
Moxa♥

 Hermosa
Sipi- Nop
Sí-No
Tqdmc
Te quiero demasiado
x
Por




The objective of this work is to recognize the changes on the new generations in the Spanish language; other objective is to understand new words, phrases and contractions of the words between the young people but mostly to know if it is true that the impact of social networking is affecting the grammar.
Social networks play an important role in determining the dynamics and outcome of language change[1]
Facebook has opened the door to shorthand typing, abbreviations, emoticons and text lingo.  Those messages include many grammar and spelling errors posted across profiles for everyone to see.
It's a daily ritual for many of us.  You log onto Facebook, change your status, comment on others' and, then, you see them!  Those mistakes!
A missing apostrophe here, a misspelled word there and the misuse of homophones everywhere! [2]

Hypotheses
·         I think these changes are just deformations of language that have been subject to time.
I believe that young people use such words or phrases to enter the social circle that develops in these social networks.





[1] http://www.global-sci.com/freedownload/v3_935.pdf

[2] http://www.fox21online.com/news/facebook-effects-grammar-and-spelling

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