THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NETSPEAK AND OTHER FORMS OF WRITTEN AND ORAL COMMUNICATION

Abstract

In this paper an attempt is made to discuss netspeak (introduced by D. Crystal; the words, abbreviations, etc. that people use when communicating on the Internet), which has become a new linguistic variety on the basis of its standard counterpart. The language of the Internet constitutes a new hybrid form of language, which draws upon features of both spoken and written language in order to form a new variety of language which is best suited to communicate within the demands of the new medium. Therefore, the Internet has permitted language to evolve a new medium of communication, different in fundamental respects from traditional oral and written forms of discourse.