The genre Netspeak. A contribution of the Internet for English as a World Language

ISBN-13: 9783668292321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 20 str.

Maximilian Mattes

Opis

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Erfurt (Philosophische Fakultat Institut fur Anglistik), course: English as a World Language, language: English, abstract: The present paper puts a focus on the contribution of the Internet genre -Netspeak- for the English language. In the context of English as a global language the paper firstly examines the status of the English language on the World Wide Web today for both native speakers (NS) and non-native speakers (NNS) and tries to describe in which ways these two groups use English to perform a wide range of communicative functions. Furthermore, the paper describes the relatively new term -Netspeak- and provides an overview of some distinctive linguistic features and patterns of this specific genre of 'electronically mediated communication' (Chrystal 2010). In addition -Netspeak- is defined as a genre and the present paper gives explanations why it can be considered to be closely connected to the concept of community of practice. Finally the educational implications of -Netspeak- for English Language Teaching (ELT) will be discussed together with a proposal for a teaching unit about -Netspeak-.