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1、ABriefstudyofNetspeakandCulture Abstract:Occuringasalanguagevariety,Netsspeakhasdistinctivelingusiticefeaturesingrammarandgraphology.ItspopularityontheInternethasformedaglobalspeechcommunity,whichconsequentiallyleadstotheconflictbetweenculturalglobalizationandculturalidentity. Keywor
2、ds:Netspeak,culture 【中图分类号】G122 TherapiddevelopmentoftheInternethasbroughtanewworldthatisconvenient,andcolorfultothecurrentglobe.Agreatnumberofpeoplecommunicatefrequentlyinthisvirtualworldwithanewformoflanguage,whichisdefinedasNetspeakinthispaper.Asanewlanguagevariety,ithasprovidedan
3、ewfieldforresearchinlinguisticsandsociolinguistics. I.WhatisNetspeak? OccurringasacompletelynewformoflanguageaccompanyingtheemergenceoftheInternet,Netspeakisquitedifferentfromthelanguageweuseinourdailycontext.Itislookedasavarietyofourlanguage.Hudsondefinesvarietyoflanguage"asasetofli
4、nguisticitemswithsimilarsocialdistribution."Specifically,5"Itwillbenoticedthatitisconsistentwiththedefinitiontotreatallthelanguagesofsomemultilingualspeaker,orcommunity,asasinglevariety,sinceallthelinguisticitemsconcernedhaveasimilarsocialdistribution-theyareusedbythesamespeakerorcommu
5、nity.Thatis,avarietymaybemuchlargerthanalay'language',includinganumberofdifferentlanguages."(Hudson,1980:23-25)ForNetspeak,itreferstotheveryuniquelanguageusedontheInternet.Internetusersarecontinuallysearchingforexpressionstodescribetheirexperiences,tocapturethecharacteroftheelectronicw
6、orld,andtoovercomethecommunicativelimitationsofitstechnology.TheycoinnewtermsandintroducevariationsinlexiconandgrammarintoestablishedonesbycombiningRomanletters,Arabicnumerals,charactersandpunctuationmarksavailable. II.FeaturesofNetspeak Likespokendiscourse,onlineinteractionismostlyr
7、eal-timeandinteractiveanddisplayssomefeaturescommonlyfoundinspokenlanguage;butunlikespokendiscourse,itisconductedentirelyintypedorwrittenform.Despitethewrittennature,itisfullyinteractiveandactuallybearsmorerelationtospokenformsthantowritten.Itscharacteristicsfallintoseveralcategories