Ana Carolina Pomilio
This article aims to understand the impact of the use of the internet on the English language. The English language has and continues to evolve over time. Language is always changing and evolving but whether the internet is causing a degradation in the use of the English language in both spoken and written language is still unclear. English language has been expanding as a result of the web, for example the verb ‘to google’ has been added as a formal word in the English language to the Oxford dictionary, which means ‘search for information about (someone or something) on the internet’. Common internet abbreviations such as ‘lol’ (laugh out loud) have also found their way into the Oxford dictionary. New vocabulary is being added as our lifestyles are increasingly governed by internet usage. However I wish to address in this article, not only how it is evolving but if the English language is suffering from degradation in its online form and the social implications of such a change in language. Is this simply language evolution or the corruption of language? And if this is the case, what are the implications of the decline? The research into this topic is important in the field of social linguistics as the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of vocabulary and grammar knowledge could be disappearing or changing dramatically.
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