The stylistic features of cyber language

With the development and popularization of the Internet, more than and more people are added to the Internet communicatory activities. Online chat is one of these progressively popular hammers. Since it is spread out and compatible, it draws the attention of people from all over the cosmos and from every circle. Therefore, the study of cyber speech communication has become a focus of attention. In this paper, under the theory of modern rhetoricals, the stylistic features of cyber language and its causes were discussed from vocabulary and grammatical levels. The author has demonstrated some lexical features of cyber language with a come of examples.Then, in the second part, the grammatical features cave in been discussed. And the third part is slightly the causes of these stylistic features. 1. 1 Background of the Present Study From 1990s, the Internet has little by little spread around the world and a entanglemented, digital information transformation has penetrated int o all areas of society. According to the data of U. S. research firm (Pew Internet and American Life Project PIALP, 1999) the number of Chinese net citizens has reached 137 million and would be expected to surpass the United States in 2009, the worlds biggest Internet market.Although he fib of Network development is not long, it is sweeping across the world with undreamed of speed and unstoppable trend, and is gradually changing peoples pattern of survival, status, and mode. With the popularization of network technology, online exchange has become an important part of daily communication. Therefore, a new-fangled media has been produced during this process-cyber language. To a large extent, the great influence of kindly development has contributed a lot to this phenomenon.Many scholars no matter home or abroad have stepped into this area and suggested their own opinions from various aspects. This paper has analyzed the features of cyber language from the stylistic point of view . 1. 2 Purpose of the Present Study Cyber language is an open system of signs. Because of some political and economical factors, more and more incline words will come into the field of Internet and play some necessary functions. To some extent, we may say that those English words practise as a complement and development of Chinese characters.As a main informational carrier of Internet media, cyber English reflects the impacts of lexical contact and spread on Chinese characters as well as the cultural influences from English-speaking countries in Informational Era. Research of cyber language has pushed the development of verbal and cross-cultural communication and has operable meaning in aspects of Language Standard, language teaching, the compile of new vocabulary as well as the sound development of cyber language and so on. Therefore, it deserves the attention of language workers. . 1 Definition and account statement 2. 1. 1 Explanation of Online Communication added to the In ternet communicative activities. People type letters on keyboard and receive words on screen. Their communication breaks up the boundary of beat and space. It is different from the face -to -face communication in general sense. Kiesler, Siegel, and Timothy (1984) pretend that such computer-mediated exchange activity has two interesting features 1) lack of social contextual information 2) lack of widely accepted principle of usage.The scratch feature prevents the participants from relying on hand gestures, body potential language, facial expressions and new(prenominal) non- linguistic information to explain the text and assist the exchange. The lack of rules makes the tralatitious communicative rituals broken and gradually a number of Internet specifications which were widely approved have been formed. But as a real- time communicative activity, it is very close to the daily face-to-face oral communication. In real time communication, the communicator can both receive informati on and send a message.Receiving and contagion information is a continuous, uninterrupted process. This allows the two communicators to exchange feedback in time, lay and revise the direction and content of the next exchange. Obviously, cyber language has the features of both utter and pen language and it obscures the traditional distinction between oral and written language, forming its own unique call. 2. 1. Definition of Stylistic Tags This paper analyses the stylistic features of cyber language from two perspectives description and context of language.In the language description, we use the system of stylistic tags to classify the language feature. According to Enkvist and Spenser (1964), stylistic tag is a freehanded stylistic feature. Any language project with stylistic meanings can be regarded as a style tag which is the same as the concept of outstandingin functional stylistics. In his work, Zhang (1998) states Halliday, founder of Systemic-functional Linguistics thinks that salient is a collective discourse for those rotruding language features in some form of context.Then he classifies those features into two types one is against the conventional prominent, negative the other is pursuant(predicate) with conventional prominent, positive. (pp. 21-22) In stylistics, language features are generally divided into quaternary levels phonology, word position, vocabulary, syntax / grammar. When chat in the net, visual text or punctuation is the only carrier to transmit information, so phonological style tags do not have stylistic sense. We only analyze the word, vocabulary, syntax / grammar style tags.