| People now write in a way that establishes a more informal connection which helps them to engage in a casual conversation and community bonding. This form of communication offers more ‘authentic’ representations of speech |
| Some people sometimes use internet acronyms in spoken and written communication. |
| the linking of written slang to speech is “a brand new variety of language evolving, invented really by young people, within five years |
| Jean-François Lyotard analyses the end of metanarratives in the postmodern culture. “The narrative function is losing its great hero, its great dangers, its great voyages, and its great goal”. According to Lyotard, they were stopped, by technological progress in communication, mass media and computer science |
| Communication is developing into new forms every day and Twitter is just one of them. The purpose of information exchange, the established networks, the form of communication and its content is connected with the necessary change of languageRead more at mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl |
Jack Lynch, who also has written on Shakespeare and edited Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary, gives us not a history of the English language but a history of those who have tried to make sense of it. He divides them into “prescriptive” and “descriptive” linguists: The former try with all their might to purge the language of undesirable words and constructions; the latter, acting on the theory that the language is untamable, simply try to describe its current use. (That, too, seems futile often enough — like describing a tidal wave as it booms by.)
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| People tend to go nuts around the English language. Of course, most of us are nuts anyway, but the language is always there, in the ether, or staring at us from a page, and if we’re feeling particularly cranky, it never fails to provide a ready excuse for us to fly off the handle. Read more at www.washingtonpost.com |
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Are we heading for a new form of universal language ,devoid of metanarratives and leisurely speech rhythms ?
