questionnaire about Netglish
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I want to have a questionnaire about Netglish, aiming to have a research about how netglish affect people' s daily life according to their ages or societies they live.But I still trouble about the detail questiones .Any suggestion or information is warmly welcomed.
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Hello Autumn,
English has become the lingua franca of the net , around 80 % of the websites are in English ,so there must be an effect of the so called "Netglish" or "Netspeak" on people.
Although the world wide web is becoming multilingual, being able to communicate in English remains the necessary condition to access the bulk of information on the Internet.No doubt that the interaction with all other languages online created all the other glishs *Denglish ,Chinglish, Konglish,Japlish etc* . There are modifications in those languages as well as in the English language itself . The attempts of Oxford English Dictionary to record and codify all the new words and ways in which they are trailing way behind. They can't keep up. Nobody could." "The fact is that the English-speaking countries have given up ownership of English.
In Netglish, all the concepts of time and space and scheduling are suddenly changed; the idea of what the words success and profit mean are changed; the sought-after goal is not money but attention; products and services are literally given away for free; privacy has to be redefined drastically. The linguistic computerization of English led to many new concepts that are globally widespread and surely effecting all categories of people specially the youth.
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Well, I think the key topics would be the relationship of online or texted English on standard English in the professional or educational world, as well as how it affects the ability of a person to be proficient in English (Most importantly spelling, but also grammatical and vocabulary issues).
Does the increasingly more abbreviated form of casual English conversation (both typed as well as oral) affect the language as a whole? And how does it affect relations between individuals? Does it create a distinct in and out group? (Those who understand (Generally the younger generation) and those who don't (possibly parents, foreign learners, etc)
Perhaps most importantly, as these abbreviated forms grow and begin to be used outside the contexts of their origins (internet and text terms appearing in oral delivery, etc), is this a temporary fad or a new form of English? Is this language evolution or language devolution?
For a topic like this there may not be a lot of solid data for you to go from. The best bet would be to do so manual research. Contact English teachers, a few at different educational levels (Middle school, high school, university, etc), and inquire about how the new language trends have affected student performance, how it has affected their job, and what their own personal opinions on the trend are. It may also be useful to inquire with people who do a lot of writing (secretaries, etc), people who handle a lot of written statements (human resources personel perhaps, as they handle a lot of applications, if you have the contacts perhaps also a university application reviewer), and perhaps the every day English user who will have their own viewpoints from their own position.
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