Vocabulary Characteristics of Network English and Its Development Tendency 英语毕业论文.doc

Vocabulary Characteristics of Network English and Its Development Tendency 1. Introduction Since the 21st century, technology revolution represented by computer has made human beings enter into a highly information-based society. At the same time, the generation of new technology and the development of society played important roles in the promotion of language. English was the main network media language. The popularity of Internet plays an unprecedented role in the development of network English. A large number of network English has become a flood. At present, not only does network English exist in chat rooms and BBS, but it also gradually expands to wider development space such as network literature, network news, network advertisements and so on. It even infiltrates into our real verbal communications. The emergence of network English has long been a major concern as a language phenomenon. For example, a group of special people appear in our daily life now. They can do telecommuting jobs at home by computers, which is connected to the work units. They do not need to go to work dressing neatly. They are called “open-collar workers”. Internet gradually forms its own language: net speak and net talk. The use of the mouse makes computerites get a erudite name: mouse potato. Nowadays, some fashionable sentences are popular among Internet users. For example: “Do you yahoo?” or “Have you onlined?” or “Do you google it?”. With the development of the Internet economy, nearly every corner of life is surrounded by Internet. And with the popularity of Internet, network, as a special information carrier, attracts more and more people. Network language is the communication symbol in information exchanges and information processing in the Internet. It comes into existence along with the arrival of information-age, which reflects the development of science and culture directly, rapidly and intensively. Network English is a product of social progress. Not only dose it enrich