analysis of their characteristics
Abstract: With the development and popularity of the Internet, English as the main language of the Internet also will be a major development and change. New words of English on the Internet appear rapidly. There is a lot of new vocabulary to describe the new things, the formation of acronyms in order to write easily, and symbols popular in the world. These new words are easy to understand the meaning. They are vivid, appropriate, concise and easy to remember.They have enter the shortcut feature and also has a certain metaphorical. Semantic network of English presents fast updated speed and a large number of words. Key words: Internet; English; vocabulary; Characteristic
During the 21st century, mankinds have entered the Internet age. As the most powerful promoter of economic and social development, it promotes the human society into a new era. Social development is an important soil of language progress. With the development and popularity of the Internet, English as the language of the Internet also will be a major development and change.
㈠ the new words of English on the Internet
Since the Internet have appeared, it has generated about more than 1,000 new words of English . These terms are the following.
(A) Describe the new things and new words
A series of new technologies appear, typical of Information technology. There are some new things in human social life. These new things are inseparable from computer technology. The vocabulary to describe these new things arises in the network and begins to be widely used, such as knowbot, mailbot, infobahn, coopetition, E-mail, infwindow, Internet, internet, download, netspead and so on. These new words are portmanteau, such as interpedia, Telnet, etc.Some also have compound words, such as multimedia, homepage, componentware and so on. In the description process of new things, sometimes the old words directly to be given a new meaning to word meaning has been further developed. It owns a lot of new words in the category. Such as the original meaning of the mouse as \"rats\\"mouse locator\"; flame, the original meaning \"flames of passion\in computer technology, said \"bad information\"; antivirusprogram, original meaning \"antivirals\" in Biology, in computer technology, said an \"anti-virus program.\"
(B) The formation of acronyms in order to facilitate the input
Internet narrows the distance between people, while the main ways of communication is text-based. The feature of communication on the internet makes the input speed become a big problem, which has an
influence on communication. In Internet chat or email, in order to speed up the typing speed to save time and space to talk, there are many new acronyms and non-standard English spelling.
Internet language acronym is a major means of word formation. They
are the concise coinage and easy to use so that they have strong vitality. Acronyms are commonly used phrase, even if the initial people do not understand, nor will it influence the communnication. These acronyms usually will soon be accepted by the majority of Internet users. The abbreviated terms have the following methods: 1. Homonym borrowing abbreviated method
Re-form in English, Chinese pays attention to meaning, however the Internet language values the accent. According to the pronunciation of words or sentences rewritten to simplify language become the Internet a unique method of word formation, such as the IC means I see; Y means why; U means you and so on. Another is the phrase used to describe only in accordance with the pronunciation, and no longer correspond to the alternative letters. Such as ICQ (I seek you), it combines the k and you together with the same pronunciation of the letter Q instead. 2. Abbreviations of the beginning letters
Abbreviations of the beginning letter means that the first letter of each word (usually capitalized) are combined to replace the phrase or phrases
and it is the most common Internet language. It also is the most difficult to understand for most Internet users at the beginning. Among them, there is a letter on behalf of the entire word and there is a letter on behalf of part
of
the
word
acronym,
such
as
IOW(Inotherwords),
LOL(Laughingoutloud), BTW (Bytheway), TLA (Thanksinadvance), ASL (AgeSexLocation) and so on. 3. Truncated abbreviated method
In order to write easily, Internet users sometimes truncate suffix, prefix, or remove the vowels and write some new acronyms. Cut ends of words such as hangonasec = hangonasecond, rep = reputation. Some words even only leave the first letter, such as P = Pardon, G = GrinorGiggle. Cut the Prefix, such as cause (or cuz) = because, m = am. Cutting prefixes in the Internet language seems relatively rare. Remove the vowel in the word and only leave the consonants in the pronunciation of prominent and clear appearance of those letters. Such as \"MSG\" means MESSAGE \"; PLS\"means PLEASE \"; PPL means\" PEOPLE \"; THX means\" THANKS and so on. This is somewhat similar with the Chinese character input method in the association of Intelligent ABC input. 4. Borrow digital abbreviated method
English of Internet has the extraordinary acronyms, that is to say use the number of alternative homophone number instead of a letter or letters.
You can call it digital abbreviations. This is a new dynamic of the acronym and the new thing of Internet English. Such as B2B(Business to business), 3W (World Wide Web,), 4Ps (4c marketing strategy, a marketing term of E-commerce that refers to consumer'swantsandneeds, costtosatisfywantsandneeds, convenience, communication), 3A (3A services to anyone, anytime, anywhere) and so on (C) Universal symbolic language to the world
With the development of Internet, it also has generated a large number of characteristics with the pictograph of English words, such as the use of \"{}\" indicates that embrace \";“$” means greed; \"X =\" expresses the hope of a success \";XOXO\" stands for the hugs and kisses \"; ZZZ \"that is bored or sleeping and so on. The language of letters is usually composed of ideographic symbols, but in some large-scale configuration of the regular chat rooms, some single letters can also be emotional expression. Such as hotmail, the Internet users type a left parenthesis, a specific letter and a closing parenthesis, then it will appear an unexpected effect of the image. For example, type \"(R)\a rose (because R is the rose's meaning); type \"(G)\gift box (because G is the meaning of gift). The Japanese also have created a number of such words and has been recognized on the Internet, such as face flushing uses \"@^-^@\". These words first appear in the English network, Internet users are gradually being accepted as a
remarkable symbol with no pronunciation of the language, conveying the people's thinking.
Of course, the expression of power of the letters and letter combinations is very limited, and it is combined with different set-related chat room. So we have no further discussion here. We can expect that with the development of the network, it is likely to have a unified letter symbols.
㈡.The features of new words of English on the Interne
Dynamic development process of languages is to meet the communication needs of the people, but it also reflects the close relationship of the language and society and familiarity and communication. Internet English is the rapid developing under the network technology and gradually develops successfully. It reflects the popularity of the media and technological progress. Internet English is a product of Internet culture, in line with the law of development of language. It is vivid, appropriate, concise and specific. It can better express people's thoughts or ideas on network communication and also more easily be accepte.
(A) The meaning is easy to understand it is vivid and appropriate Communication on Internet is different from face to face
communication, exchanging information only with words, not with body language, which requires that the new English words on network must be easy to understand. Its word-building should be familiar to everyone, even if the reader had no previous contact with the vocabulary. The majority can be inferred based on familiar vocabulary. Network reflects the popularity of English word formation pattern in its derivation and uses a lot, so Internet users only need to know the meaning of affixes in order to the words can be inferred and derived therefrom to grasp a lot of new words, such as cyber comes from the Greek. Word means steersman. It also means \"compute or network\" or transliterated as \"Cyber\derived from the cyber there cyberactivist, cyberaddict, cyberattack, cybercop, cyberbrain, cybersurfing and so on. The number of compound English words on Internet is rich and various.
Many new words are words from the specific combination of the ordinary meaning of the words with specific words. The new semantics also are easy to understand, understand and memory. Such as the web means \"spider web\" and it can stands for the network. The synthesis words are webmaster, webster, webzine, website and so on. In addition to using some Nonverbal Symbols to represent the tone and emotion, it also often borrows some words to describe some non-verbal behavior, such as the description of users’ actions, emotions and posture and so on. People face a cold screen. Useing a language to describe the action,
emotion and body has an unparalleled role in text. You can make the network more humane, more vivid and attractive and closer to the actual exchange. Such as \"haha\" means the smiling; \" LOL\" means laugh; \"Smile\" stands for the smiling; \" Rose\" means the roses ;\"ROTFL\" means the smiling roll; \" / / jump\" means excited like a kid bounce in the chat room; \" / / think\" means tilting his head to think for a moment; \" / / praise\" tells you that \"really smart, admiration, admire,\" and so on.
(B) Simple and easy to remember and write fast
A lot of new network words are to use common roots and affixes. According to word formation rules, we make the creative re-composition. Such expressions have the characteristics that they are clear, concise and easy to interpret and remember. Simple, easy to remember can make Internet users do not need to remember long complicated terminology or jargonso that it can effectively improve the speed of keyboard input, which will improve the transmission of the network of information. English words on the Internet mainly reflect the emergence of a large number of abbreviated words, abbreviation word formation coinage concise, easy to use, more colloquial, less formal, the lack of widely accepted by the other areas of the society. But because of its user-friendly, simple, easy to remember and spread, therefore, the exchange of such abbreviations are approved and widely accepted and
used by the Internet users. Common feature of these terms are concise, single meaning, not rich in associative meaning.
Not only can the abbreviated words simplify articles, saving printing space and reading time, but also they can increase the input speed so that accommodate high-speed development of network technology and computer science. Therefore, in order to increase input speed, the English words on the Internet often ignore the first letter. (C) Metaphor
Metaphors are important human cognitive style and way of thinking. New vocabulary words on the Internet often rely on familiar words with metaphorical sense to stimulate the reader's association and imagination, highlight the new and old things or ideas or relevance of similarities, old words with new meanings assigned to create a vivid, rich metaphorical description of new things, new ideas vocabulary. Network includes many professional English vocabulary and computer network technology vocabulary. These words belong to a certain extent, scientific language so that the network English also has metaphorical characteristics. In general, the metaphor of human cognition has two functions: to create new meaning and provide new perspective of looking at things. We found that the development of computer technology, people constantly create new words or new concepts by means of metaphor. Common words through modification of the semantic change and metaphor, the original meaning
is extended and expanded, from a new angle to look at it, it will have new meaning.
Thus, under the role of the metaphor, the abstract concept is specific. Complex meaning is simplistic popularization of scientific terminology. We can strengthen the communication between the social sciences and natural sciences of communication so that a subject receives the other disciplines Inspiration. The English technical terms and words are very close to our lives. They are simple and vivid and easy to remember. This is largely to promote technology and computer network development and diffusion of knowledge.
(D)The new semantic meaning’representation, update speed and large number
The rapid development of computers and the wide spread of network lead to large numbers of new words on the network, these including a lot of new English words on the Internet. The presentation and updation of new words are quick and quantity as much as any one dictionary is also difficult to include them there. Therefore, the development of new English words on the Internet is so rapid, so understanding the composition and semantic features help the accumulation of knowledge, broaden our horizons. Today, Internet’ culture affects people's learning, living, working, thinking and values. Therefore, the strengthening the
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