GROUP SIX

Content• Ⅰ. Introduction

• Ⅱ. The Categories of Cyber Language

• Ⅲ

. The Influence of Cyber Language and So

cial Attitudes towards It

• Ⅳ. Conclusion

1 What is cyber language?

2 How does cyber language form?

3 Why cyber language so popular nowadays?

PART ONE:

From the generalized point, cyber language refers to all the language used or related to the Internet and technology, just like "dial-up","net terrace","personal home page","sever","click" and so on.

From the other narrowed aspect, cyber language means the words and sentences widely used on the Internet, the language said by netizens.

What is cyber language?

How does cyber language form? Since 1990, especially 1995, our country has vigorously developed the research of network and interrelated applications. And such words become popular. At the same time, cyber language is widely used in the virtual world, such as chatting room, BBS forum, so on and so forth. With the time going on, it gradually comes to our real life nowadays. In a way, cyber language is a distinguishing mark for telling whether one keeps pace with the times or not. And among those users, the young takes up predominantly.

Cyber language almost comes from dialect in different districts, foreign languages, abbreviation and partial tone. Then all the these parts are combined together to form this unique mixed language.

Why cyber language so popular ?

creativity and contempt of the tradition

save time andmoney

special and fashion

PART TWO ： The Categories of Cyber Language

1.Abbreviation

2.Homophone

3.Symbol

4.Coinage

5.Dialectal synonym

6.Babble

7.Mixture

8.Characters, lines from films and TV plays and influential events

9.Onomatopoeia

1. Abbreviation

a. Chinese pinyine.g.: GG ( 哥哥 ) LZ ( 楼主 ) GXGX( 恭喜恭喜 ) PMP( 拍马屁 ) PMPMP( 拼命拍马屁 ) BXCM ( 冰雪聪明 ) JS ( 奸商 ) FB ( 腐败 ) KPM( 肯德基、匹萨饼、麦当劳 )

b. English e.g.: BB (Bye-Bye, Baby) BF (Boyfriend) SP (Support) IMHO ( In My Humble Opinion) LOL (Laugh Out Loud) DIY (Do It Yourself) SOHO (Small Office Home Officer ) FT (Faint)

2. Homophone

a. Chinese e.g. : 稀饭（喜欢） 灰常（非常） 点心局（电信局） 果酱（过奖） 介个 （这个）人参公鸡 （人身攻击 ） 筒子 （同志 ）口年 （可怜）

b. English e.g. : E-Mail ( 伊妹儿 , 电子邮件 ) home page ( 烘焙鸡，主页 ) download ( 荡，下载 ) modem ( 猫，调制解调器 ) cool ( 酷 ) PII ( 屁兔，奔腾 2) win95 [ ( 温 ) 酒屋，操作系统 ]

c. Figure e.g. : 886( 拜拜） 7456 （气死我了） 596 （我走了） 847( 别生气 ) 848( 不是吧 ) 246( 饿死了 ) 5366( 我想聊聊 ) 51396( 我要睡觉了 ) 04551( 你是我唯一 )

3. Symbole.g. ：（ -_- ）神秘笑容 : -  平淡无味的笑 ＾ - ＾咪着眼睛笑 *<|: - ) 圣诞老人 ( ＾ @ ＾ )” 幸运小猪 <@-@> 醉了 (0^ ^0) ◇ 麻雀 (((●< 蟑螂 ∠※花束 ( :):: ) 创可贴 (((((((((((((●~~~~*” 表示放个炸弹炸人

4. Coinagee.g. : 菜鸟 （网络新手） 造砖（认真精心地写） 写手（网络文学的作者 ）大虾（超级网虫） 版猪，斑竹（电子公告版管理者） 食肉性恐龙（长相丑陋的泼妇） 食草性恐龙（长相丑陋但稍温和的丑女） 酷鸡（酷机，指功能强的主机 )

5. Dialectal synonym

a.Chinese dialecte.g. : 母代 / 唔得 （南京 , 不） 唔系（广东， 不） 虾米 （福建，什么） 粉 （ 福建，很） 拍拖（ 广东，恋爱） 颠菜（北京，离开 ）

b. Foreign languagee.g. 残念（日本 , 遗憾） 不睬你（新加坡，不理你） …… とぃぃます ( 日语，认为 …… 的说 )

6. Babblee.g.: 东东（东西） 试一下下（试一下） 漂漂（漂亮）

7. Mixture

a. The mixed usage of English and Chinesee.g.: 小 case ( 简单的事情 ) call/E 我 ( 打电话 / 发邮件给我 ) 吃饭 ing ( 正在吃饭 ) 睡觉 ing ( 正在睡觉 )

b. The mixed usage of English and symbolse.g.: ： //nod (nodding) ： //grin ( grinning)

c. The mixed usage of figures and Englishe.g.: L8R (Later 的变体或 L8TR, 以后 ) B4 (Before, 以前 ) K001( 酷，是 cool 的变体，显得更酷 ) f2f(Face to face, 面对面 )

8. Characters, lines from films and TV plays and influential eventse.g.: 出来混，迟早都是要还得 ( 无间道，因果报应 ) 贾君鹏，你妈妈喊你回家吃饭（魔兽世界贴吧） 哥发的不是贴，是寂寞（某论坛） 小强（唐伯虎点秋香，蟑螂） 躲猫猫（源出于 2009 年 2 月 12 日云南省晋宁县警方 ）

• Onomatopoeia e.g.: haha ( 大笑 ) KKKK……( 咳嗽 ) zzzZZZzzzz( 睡觉 ) 55555 （呜呜的哭声）

The Influence of Cyber Language and

Social Attitudes towards It

* Influence

1. On Daily Communication

2. On Other Mass Media

* Social Attitude

1. Negative Attitude

2. Positive Attitude

PART THREE:

1. On Daily Communication

• First , come into daily conversations

among young people when they talk

about Internet affairs

• Later, applied directly in describing

matters in real world

2. On Other Mass Media

cyber language

novels

newspapers

television or radio

magazines

Example:

• First , daily conversations among

young people when they talk about

Internet affairs

• Later, applied directly in describing

matters in real world

Social Attitude

Since Internet came into our life, the discussion on cyber

language has never ceased. Sociologists, linguists,

teachers and others dealing with languages show their

fears of the new language phenomena and hold different

views on it. Generally speaking, attitudes towards cyber

language can be divided into two main types: negative

attitude and positive attitude.

* violate the standards and norms of language

* affect the education of language

* distort people’s thought model.

* should be limited and regulated.

1. Negative Attitude

2. Positive Attitude• Since everything in the world is undergoing

changes from the historical view, it is quite

natural that our current-using language can’t

escape the whirring, but experience some

changes, even tremendous changes.

• Cyber language enriches the traditional language

by adding a large number of new words to

describe new-emerging things and signifies a

new language revolution.

Ⅴ. Conclusion

• The features of cyber language

• Our attitude towards cyber language

• How we should regulate cyber language

• Creative

• Economical

• Vivid

• Humorous

• Vulgar

• We should be tolerant about it. In fact, one language, which is still in service for mankind, is vivid and changeable. As long as the society opens up to the outside world, it will grow and there must be some new words come.

Creative•Creativity is the largest feature

of cyber language. It embodies in the changing use and creativity of vocabulary and breakthrough of normal grammars.

Economical• Considering the fees and time

of going on the internet, it has the feature of money-saving. We can easily understand and use them. For instance, GG, DD, PPMM, 1314.

Vivid

• Maybe influenced by the inspiration of Chinese word. People use some shapes to present their feelings.

Humorous• Internet is often used by some

interesting people. Most of them are relatively young and lively, so they create a relaxing and humorous atmosphere.

Vulgar• Like the reality, people may abuse others on

the Internet with some vulgar words. About this, some departments should make some rules to make a nice and pure environment.

• Choose to absorb • Recognize the reason of irregular language • Take a test on the new cyber language to

form some basic rules of regular cyber language.

• Some apartments stress to manage, test boycott and forbidden some irregular cyber language on the internet and forbidden them spreading into other areas.

• Have a moral education to net citizens about the effect of cyber language.

Thank you