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The Influence of the Language of New Media on the Literacy of Young People in Their School Assignments and in Leisure

The authors of this research study try to explore the real literacy among young people of today resulting from the influence of the language of new media (especially Facebook and the mobile phone). The impetus for this study comes from frequent complaints that the language of young people has deteriorated due to the negative impact of the language that young people are using in the new media. The authors have done this through an analysis of the way students write in their school assignments and in writings done in their spare time in the new media with regard to (non) existence of the language of the new media (such as abbreviations, emoticons and others, more frequent use of punctuation marks, dialecticisms, anglicisms, vulgarisms, neologisms, etc.). In Croatia, the research of the language of new media is in its initial stage (Žic-Fuchs and Tuđman- Vuković 2008 ; Pavličević - Franić 2008 ; Filipan- Žignić 2012, 2013). This is very different from the situation in English linguistics (Werry 1996 ; Herring et al. 2004, 2013 ; Crystal, 2006, 2011 ; Humphrys 2007, Baron 2008 ; Krishnamurthy et al. 2008 ; Day, 2009, 2012 ; Boyd et al., 2010 ; Seargeant and Tagg 2014) and German linguistics (Döring 2002, Huber 2002 Schlobinski 2009, 2009 ; Siever, 2011, 2013 ; Schlobinski and Siever, 2005 ; Storrer, 2001 ; Berger 2008 ; Androusopoulos 2009 Tour 2010 ; Bieswanger 2007, 2013 ; Dürscheid 2010 ; Weigert 2010) where the research and study of the language of new media abound. Participants in the present research study will be 300 students in their final year of grammar school from northern and northwestern Croatia. In their analysis, the researchers used a computer program Oxford WordSmith Tools 6.0. The authors aimed to find out whether or not students in their private language texts use the language of the new media (written language with many elements of spoken language and with many abbreviations) and whether or not the students in their school assignments consistently use the standard language without the elements that they normally use in their own language in the new media. The results have shown that secondary school students do consistently write in the standard language in their school assignments, whereas in their leisure activities they use all the elements of the language of new media.

Internet ; mobile phone ; young people ; language of new media ; standard

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