Overcoming The LOL Effect Analysis

Title : Overcoming the LOL effect

Subtitle : Examine language gap through social media

Introduction :

Language is a complex issue, it’s always evolving because it’s a living organism, and it experiences evolution (Andrew, 2002, p.2), adapting to the needs of its user (Mcworther, 2014, p.15). It comes through new technologies, products, and experiences. With different lifestyle that young people play and elderly people hold it creates a language gap. Language gap is a different between two descriptions of an object by different linguistic representations (Salkowitz, 2008). When certain people have certain representation that is where miscommunication between these two-generation developed, this difference of lifestyle in using mobile devices

Many of the changes that occur in language begin with teens and young adults as they mostly spend their time on Internet. To interact and stay up to date with their friends in their own age, as they keep interacting with each other their language grows to include words, phrases and constructions that are different from those older generation, on the other side Elderly people are less likely to take up new technology as they feel they do not need to follow the trend and resistant to change in technology. The Internet created a new language that most of elderly people barely knows the meaning (Sherzer, 2009, p.87). With the growth of modern communication, technology is developing too rapidly for the older generation to keep up with. Miscommunication and ineffective communication can lead to social awkwardness for each generation to

When printing evolved in the 1400s, it changed language because of there is new styles, new spelling’s, new punctuation system’s developed. With the invention of the telephone in the 19th Century, it too changed language. When the telephone came into the 19th century, it changes the language. People on 19th century have new patterns of dialogue came into being. When broadcasting started in the 1920s, it also changes the language. And when the Internet came into being, it changes the language. Nobody ever expected the language to be so diversified as a result of the Internet simply because nobody was able to predict exactly how many different technological variations that are going to be of electronically mediated communication. He stated that there are many ways to communicate using different medium in today’s era, World Wide Web, email, chat’s room, virtual worlds, games that people play, blogging, internet messaging, Facebook, texting, and it goes on and on. Now each one of these new technologies when you have opportunities for communication produces a new kind of language and in the case a new style of English. The language we use when we are blogging is not the same as the language we use on instant messaging and so we can go on through all these different mediums and point to new style rules of English that are emerging as a consequence. The actual language itself hasn’t change that much; it is in this that we look through this