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ronicdiscourse”, “electronic language”, “Internet slang”, “Netlingo”, and the fourth. From the word-formationtheory, “netspeak” is a compound word formed by two nouns: “net” and “speak”. The meaning of thecompound is closely related to the meanings of its parts. The reason why the term is adopted in the presentstudy is that it is more functional than other terms.According to Lauren Squires (2010), netspeak has been used in public at least 1993, when the Internetwas still a novelty to most of people. The term is often considered as a code to be translated into commonwords, such as mailing list, links, news group, snail mail, etc. At present, there are various definitions ofnetspeak. Different scholars define netspeak from different perspectives with different focuses.D. Crystal (2001) firstly uses the term to refer to the specialized language of cyberspace in his bookLanguage and the Internet. He regards netspeak as a type of language displaying features that are unique tothe Internet, and encountered in all the above situations (namely, in email, chat groups, virtual worlds andWorld Wide Web), arising out of its character as a medium that is electronic, global and interactive. D.Crystal defines the term in a wide range.Chinese scholar Yu Genyuan (2001) believes that at first netspeak refers to the computer language ofthe network in most cases, and also refers to natural language which is used in cyber space and has its ownlanguage features. As far as he is concerned, netspeak generally refers to the latter
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2.2 Previous Studies on Netspeak
As the fruit of the development of the Internet, the greatest invention in 20thcentury, netspeak has attracted more and more people’s attention both abroad and at home, including linguists, scholars in otherfields, and netizens. They have published a great number of books and articles discussing about netspeakfrom different perspectives. The following part mainly aims to review the previous studies on netspeak bothabroad and at home.The research on netspeak aboard is earlier than that at home. As early as 1975, after collecting anumber of jargons specially used by hackers, American scholar Raphael Finkel edited The Jargon File,which is a hacker jargon dictionary. The dictionary can be called the embryonic form of netspeak. ProfessorWalter J. Ong (1982) explores the influence of network technology on culture and language in Orality andLiteraty: The Technologizing of the Word. He states that computer language is similar to natural language tosome extent. However, computer language, in his opinion, is directly produced by human beings instead ofbeing created unconsciously, and the rules of computer language are not used until they are stipulated. M.Collot and N. Belmore (1993) deem that electronic language is a new variety of English. Parshall (1995)holds that netspeak is the special argot of the Internet, such as mouse potato, webmaster, spamming. It isdifferent from netspeak which means the opposite of its literal meaning. American linguistics Davis andBrewer (1997) believes that the network communicative language, which is written in keyboard and readon the screen, has many characteristics of spoken and written language.
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Chapter Three Theoretical Framework........18
3.1 A Brief Introduction of Adaptation Theory...... 18
3.2 Language Using as a Linguistic-choices Making Process.... 18
3.3 Three Properties of Lan