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Inauguraldiss.-- Uppsala. / Bibliography: p. [127]-132.

Thesis (M. A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

Inauguraldiss.-- Uppsala. / Bibliography: p. [127]-132.

The aim of this study is to investigate the reasons why young people in Mexico useabbreviations, how abbreviations are used and what kind of abbreviations they use amongtheir group of friends. The study is conducted among a small sample of persons between 18 to30 years old and from one sociocultural group.We studied a group of 20 informants. In this group we included young people working as acashiers, warehouse workers, employees in stores, etc. These informants answered a writtenquestionnaire and we also analyzed 40 of their Facebook messages.In summary, it was noticed that the abbreviations were used because it is a fast way to writebecause they save time. According to the informants “It is fun and is easy to use them whenwriting their messages”. We could see that a few informants use them because it is a new wayof writing as well as considering it to be entertaining to write their messages. When analyzingtheir messages, we saw that these informants do not seem to have rules when writing theirabbrevations, they shorten the words in all forms and place them in any part of theirmessages. They often adapt their way of writing to the pronunciation of the words, similar tothe spoken language. Some words had influences from the caliche jargot (a variety ofcolloquial language used among young people in Mexico). The informants in this study areusing all kinds of abbreviations such as abbreviated words, acronyms and shortenings

published_or_final_version / abstract / Linguistics / Master / Master of Arts

published_or_final_version / Linguistics / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

<p><p>The Internet is in many cases our primary source for communication. As more communicative options online are introduced and become a part of our life, the language of the Internet, so called Netspeak, becomes a part of our language. The aim of this paper was to find out whether there is a difference in the use of Netspeak between teenagers and adults. The investigation was based on two message boards, one where the majority is teenagers and one where the majority is adults. Four different features of Netspeak were studied: exaggerated use of punctuation; exaggerated use of capital letters; abbreviations; and emoticons. All features are substitutes for paralanguage.</p><p>The results show that teenagers are more likely to use features such as exaggerated use of punctuation and capitals, and abbreviations. Adults are, however, more likely to use emoticons than teenagers.</p></p>

Inaug.-Diss.--Bonn. / Lebenslauf. "Abgekürzt angeführte Literatur": p. vii-viii.

In this paper I tried to take a closer look at the topic of social networks, electronic communication and the way they influence the spoken and written speech. The modern communication in general is mentioned in this paper as well. I tried to find and focused on particular aspects of electronic communication, especially parts of internet slang as chat abbreviations, emoticons and also the stylistics. I compared the gathered information to the pupils? language and proved some influence by the modern ways of communication. As a part of a research pupils filled in a questionare and a further research on spoken and written speech took place. I came up with several statements which i managed to prove right, couple of them have been proven wrong, though. A conclusion on the contemporary situation has been made that both the spoken and written speech is influenced by modern way of communication.