Linguistics and Literature Studies Vol. 2(5), pp. 141 - 145
DOI: 10.13189/lls.2014.020502
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Lingua Franca to Lingua Shrunka: Changing Perspective of Post-Modern Communication through Technology

Preeti Tushar Joshi ^*
University of Pune, Maharashtra, India

ABSTRACT

Technology has revolutionalized modern man’s life at the global level including the field of language. The current paper tries to study the impact of modern communication tools on written English language. This is the area where technology has had the biggest impact. Email altered the structure of the letter as a communicative tool. It introduced new etiquette, new conventions, new abbreviations, acronyms such as BFN, FYI, PFA. Mobile phones with SMS have an astonishing impact on lexical and syntactical aspects of language. Language is getting shorter and shorter by the by. Two more points to be considered in this transition are the screen size of the mobile and writing as a time consuming task. Therefore, with fewer efforts if person conveys the same message “why won’t he go with this lingua shrunka?” In this type of language, punctuations make words, letters create sentences, and a mere preposition can be a proposition. Even ‘emoticons’ offering away out of wordiness and creatively solving the problem of being unable to see facial expressions or hear tones of voice in typed correspondence. They provide substitute for words and sentences. To sum up....email, SMS (texting), blogging, twittering, social networking sites tell people write the way they speak less like they used to write. Therefore, language used in modern communication tools is very popular which makes the use of the phonetic part of the language and uses only those words, which are absolutely necessary eliminating redundant words.

KEYWORDS
Communication Tools, Acronyms, Lexical and Syntactical Aspects, Lingua Shrunka, Emoticons, Phonetic Part of the Language

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Preeti Tushar Joshi , "Lingua Franca to Lingua Shrunka: Changing Perspective of Post-Modern Communication through Technology," Linguistics and Literature Studies, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 141 - 145, 2014. DOI: 10.13189/lls.2014.020502.

(b). APA Format:
Preeti Tushar Joshi (2014). Lingua Franca to Lingua Shrunka: Changing Perspective of Post-Modern Communication through Technology. Linguistics and Literature Studies, 2(5), 141 - 145. DOI: 10.13189/lls.2014.020502.