网络社交英语的特点、起因及其对英语发展的影响

Features

and

Causes

of

Network

Communicative

English

and Its Influences on English Development

网络社交英语的特点、起因及其对英语发展的影响

Abstract

The

English

used

in

network

communication

is

called

network

communicative

English.

With

the

wide

use

of

social

network

like

western

Twitter

or

Chinese

Microblog,

such

new

language

variety

originated

from

net

communication

has

become an important

part in

daily life.

Starting

from

the

analysis of features of

the

network

communicative

English

from

linguistic

levels

of

vocabulary

and

grammar,

the paper aims to explorethe causes ofsuch English innovation and its influences on

English development from a sociolinguistic perspective, which will help to learn the

enrichment of the English language development and to understand the cultural and

psychological causes behind the network language.

Keywords:

network communicative English; features; causes; English development

摘要：

在互联网交流中所使用的英语 变体形式称为网络交际英语。

随着社交网络

的广泛应用，

源于网络交际的英语正成为人们生活中的重要部分。

本文将从研究

网络社交英语的词汇和语法特点出发，

从社会语言学角度探讨网络社 交英语产生

的原因及其对英语发展的影响，

进一步了解网络英语 背后的文化心理特质，

及当

前英语的丰富发展对英语发展的重要 意义。

关键词：

网络交际英语；特点 ；原因；英语发展

1.

Introduction

Network communicative English is English used by netizens, both young and old,

in new social communication channels such as internet chats, e-mails, BBS, electronic

forum

and E-messages.

Network

communicative English has been

a new

variety of

English

with

the

wide

use

of

the

a

new

variety

of

English,

the

development of network communicative English is taking great occupation in English

development history along with other varieties as American English or Black English.

In previous studies, some have analyzed linguistic features of the new English variety,

but less have paid attention to the causes and influences of this development. As the

language

is

a

creature

of

culture

and

society,

apart

from

the

characteristics

of

the

network communicative English from linguistic levels of the vocabulary and grammar,

this

paper

is

to

analyze

the

causes

and

influences

of

the

network

communicative

English

on

the

development

of

the

English

language

from

a

sociolinguistic

perspective.

In

the

analysis,

major

methodology

of

showing

examples,

which

are

mostly collected from both Chinese and foreign socialnetworks, is employed.

2. Features of Network Communicative English

The

network

communicative

English

is

spread

by

social

communication

on

the

internet,

and is

a product

of

the

internet.

Thus, there is

synchronizationbetween

the

development

of

network

communicative

English

and

the

internet.

According

to

statistics,

at

present,

common

network

English

terms

have

surpassed

a

number

of

2000

in

the

network

socialcommunication.

What

are

the

characteristics

of

these

network

communicative

English?

Following

is

a

brief

introduction

in

aspects

of

vocabulary and grammar.

2.1

F

eatures of the Vocabulary

Language is the creature of the culture and society. With the development of the

society, the new English words

are

emerging

and replacing

the

cliché

s.

Besides the

general

features

of

the

common

vocabulary,

for

its

instance

and

convenience,

the

network communicative Englishtakes on such typical features as follows:

2.1.1 Innovation

The

internet

provides

people

a

wide

space

of

freeing

the

imagination

and

creativity.

Many

new

words

are

created

by

creative

netizens

by

rhetoricalways

of

metaphor,

homophone,

and

personification

and

so

on.

This

feature

of

innovation

is

mainly reflected in phonetic level. For example, in network communicative

(1)

“

TAXI

”

has no relativeness to the vehicle but means

“

it is a pity

”

( in Chinese

said

太可惜

, with a similar phonetic pronunciation);

(2)

“

me too

”

means

“

I disapprove of that

”

(in Chinese said

我吐

, the word

“

too

”

has a similar phonetic pronunciation with Chinese character

“

吐

”

).

2.1.2 Vividness

Many

combinations

of

numbers,

letters,

punctuations

and

special

symbols

are

used

to

express

the

different

feelings

—

happiness,

sorrow,

anger,

etc.

With

the

vividness of such innovation, these combinations of different symbols are quickly be

accepted

and

got

popular

among

the

netizens.

To

some

degree,

these

symbols

are

replacing words to express emotions. For example,

(3)

“

:-D

”

means a big smile(a combination of colon, hyphen, and the letter D);

(4)

“

:-(

”

means anger (a combination of colon, hyphen and first-half parenthesis);

(5)

“

:-)

”

expresses

happiness

or

grinning

or

joking

(a

combination

of

colon,

hyphen and second- half parenthesis).

2.1.3 Conciseness and Economy

The

mostoutstanding

characteristics

are

the

innovation

and

variation

of

the

vocabulary,

which

is

represented

by

the

wide

employment

of

abbreviationand

homophone to make the language concise and brief. The two ways have broken the

limitations

of

the

conventional

regular

writing,

and

invented

new

combinations

of

letters and numbers.

Abbreviations and acronyms are popular used to make the expressioneconomic in

spelling. For example:

(6)

“

re

”

is short for

“

respond

”

(abbreviation)

(7)

“

ft

”

is short for

“

faint

”

(abbreviation)

(8)

“

PS

”

is short for

“

postscript