Netlinguistics in the service of Netlish
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2016-03-07
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University of Eloued جامعة الوادي
Abstract
Computer Mediated Discourse (CMD/ Netlish) is the language resulting from the use
of Computer Mediated Communication which is generally text-based language. This
language came as the result of people‘s attempt to adapt their language to cope with
the linguistic constraints and opportunities provided by the new technology.The
general assumption is that CMC and the internet have a bad influence on language.
CMD is becoming less formal, less polite and highly abbreviated. Therefore people
are anxious about the quality of the people‘s written production because of the
breach of the standards and norms of the traditional written language. Nelinguistics
studies the effects of the Internet and other new media such as Short Message Service
(SMS) and text messaging on the language in terms of the new language forms and
styles. Applied Netlinguistics has different applications ; one of them is the
pedagogical application which is interested in integrating the Internet into EAP to
help developing new literacies and language learning skills. In fact, we have to accept
the new change brought to language because space and time constraints brought about
technology are responsible for this change. This change is not necessarily negative.
Here came the importance of pedagogy in instructing students to use CMC properly
without feeling the fear from the new technology. Students must be instructed both
the well constructed texts used in academic settings as well as the specific texts used
for personal interactions.
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THE SECOND NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE, MIND AND LEARNER'S COGNITIVE CAPACITIES March, 7th/8th 2016 University of Eloued
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Netlinguistics, CMC, CMD, Applied Netlinguistics