What Are Internet Linguistics?
Web linguistics (weblinguistics, cyberlinguistics, netlinguistics, or intnetlinguistics) is an interdisciplinary study of network languages. With the development of network and information technology, network language is a new language form different from traditional flat media. It is in a concise and vivid form, and has been favored by a large number of netizens since its birth, and has developed rapidly.
- Chinese name
- Network linguistics
- Foreign name
- weblinguistics, cyberlinguistics, netlinguistics, or intnetlinguistics
- Presenter
- Zhou Haizhong
- Presentation time
- Year 2000
- Research object
- Network language
- Research methods
- Cross-disciplinary synthesis
- Web linguistics (weblinguistics, cyberlinguistics, netlinguistics, or intnetlinguistics) is an interdisciplinary study of network languages. With the development of network and information technology, network language is a new language form different from traditional flat media. It is in a concise and vivid form, and has been favored by a large number of netizens since its birth, and has developed rapidly.
Basic Definition of Network Linguistics
- Weblinguistics or Netlinguistics is an emerging discipline that studies network languages. The network language is a language form that is different from the traditional flat media with the development of the network and information technology. It is in a concise and vivid form, and has been favored by a large number of netizens since its birth, and has developed rapidly. Network languages include abbreviations of Pinyin or English letters. Numbers with some specific meanings and vivid network animations and pictures are mainly used by networms in order to improve the efficiency of online chat or a specific need. Over time, a specific language is formed. The new vocabulary emerging on the Internet mainly depends on its own vitality. If those dynamic Internet languages can withstand the test of time, people can accept the conventions. [1]
Development of Network Linguistics
- In 2000, Professor Zhou Haizhong, a well-known Chinese scholar, published the classic article "A New Language Discipline-Network Linguistics", which marked the birth of network linguistics. Since then, network linguistics has drawn the attention of the academic community.
- A well-known Spanish scholar, Dr. Postguero, published a comprehensive and systematic exposition on network linguistics in the monograph "Network Linguistics: Languages, Discourses, and Thoughts on the Internet" published in 2003.
- In 2005, a well-known British linguist, Professor David Krystal, published the article "The Scope of Network Linguistics", which discussed the impact of network and information technology on language. In 2011, Professor Krystal published the textbook "Network Linguistics: A Student's Guide", and comprehensively summarized and systematically explained the existing knowledge and results of network linguistics. [2]
- Network linguistics has become a hot topic in linguistics research, and its theoretical system and research methods need to be continuously improved.
Interdisciplinary Network Linguistics
- Network linguistics is an interdisciplinary subject that is between network technology and language science and emphasizes on language science, but it is not a simple patchwork of some areas of network technology and some areas of language science, but organic integration; it focuses on He focuses on the theories and methods of applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, focusing on the pragmatic issues in the network age.
- Network linguistics is also a comprehensive discipline combining social sciences and natural sciences, but mainly focusing on social sciences. To study it, a comprehensive application of linguistics, education, sociology, psychology, communication, ethics, law, statistics Multidisciplinary theoretical knowledge in science, information theory, computer science, etc.
- Professor Mark Voschal, an education technology expert at the University of California, believes that, as a product of the interdisciplinary integration of multiple disciplines, network linguistics can not only obtain its own development needs from these disciplines, but also promote their common development. [3]