Impact of Social Networks on English Language
Introduction
Online Social Networking is now an integral part of global society, especially amongst teenagers. Sociology is deeply connected to Social Network as social relationships have been the root of social understanding. As George Simmel in Conflict and the Web of Group Affiliations says “Society arises from the individual and the individual arises out of association. Social Network, due to its diverse impacts, has been an as important phenomenon in the last decade as have been the Internet with its advent in the 20th century. However, it has been actively involved in popularizing constant evolution of language, particularly English.
Description
Before we move forward, some facts can be highlighted to present the dominance of social …show more content…
From the data above ‘unfriend’ is not a traditional English word. A person instead of writing “I have removed him from my friend’s list” would write instead “I have unfriend him.” Such a trend challenges the cultural norms of school teaching students on use of proper wordings in their assignments and essays. Students may find it comfortable to write ‘U’ instead ‘You’ or ‘b4’ instead ‘before.’ The use of smileys may well replace the use of difficult words of emotions which would be used by traditional English speakers to express their feelings towards the listener. This is so because the smiley easily mimics the facial expression that the typist is intending for the reader to perceive, and saving time as well. Also the incorporation of multiple words from different languages in a conversation has been an historic cause for creation of new languages. For example, The Hindi language is made up of a combination of numerous languages such as Punjabi, Sunskrit, Persian and
Introduction
Online Social Networking is now an integral part of global society, especially amongst teenagers. Sociology is deeply connected to Social Network as social relationships have been the root of social understanding. As George Simmel in Conflict and the Web of Group Affiliations says “Society arises from the individual and the individual arises out of association. Social Network, due to its diverse impacts, has been an as important phenomenon in the last decade as have been the Internet with its advent in the 20th century. However, it has been actively involved in popularizing constant evolution of language, particularly English.
Description
Before we move forward, some facts can be highlighted to present the dominance of social …show more content…
From the data above ‘unfriend’ is not a traditional English word. A person instead of writing “I have removed him from my friend’s list” would write instead “I have unfriend him.” Such a trend challenges the cultural norms of school teaching students on use of proper wordings in their assignments and essays. Students may find it comfortable to write ‘U’ instead ‘You’ or ‘b4’ instead ‘before.’ The use of smileys may well replace the use of difficult words of emotions which would be used by traditional English speakers to express their feelings towards the listener. This is so because the smiley easily mimics the facial expression that the typist is intending for the reader to perceive, and saving time as well. Also the incorporation of multiple words from different languages in a conversation has been an historic cause for creation of new languages. For example, The Hindi language is made up of a combination of numerous languages such as Punjabi, Sunskrit, Persian and