| Abstract [eng] |
The object of this master’s thesis – the language in different information and communication technology environments. The purpose of this work is to determine what are the language features in information and communication technology environments, especially the usage of text messages. The main targets to reach this purpose: clarify the direction of information and communication technology influence on language; define the spoken and written language characteristics and discover the information and communication language location on speech scale; discuss the studies and opinions about the electronic discourse; clarify characteristic features, principles and trends in language usage of the various information and communication technology profiles; identify the Lithuanian short messages features. Literature analysis and comparative methods were used to prepare the findings. Different researches (S. Adams, H. Brunner, D. Crystal, K. Ferrera, P. Levinson, J. ir L. Milroy, G. Whittemore, R. Miliūnaitė, Z. Nauckūnaitė, A. Ryklienė ir kt.) have shown that in addition to the usual writing and spoken language, with information and communication technology integration into the daily lives, the third language range – the electronic discourse – is being created, which has a distinctive style of speech, language logic features and principles. This electronical discourse has different features of spoken and written language and could be added closer to the spoken language than in writing. Lithuanian short message content analysis was performed and showed that text messages discourse reflects the discourse of everyday conversational language and have little in common with the written language. Master‘s work examines what are the features of text messages, what are the differencies between the sexes and different age groups written text messages. Master's work can be used for further proceedings and for the benefit of linguists, communications companies and operators, ad-makers, information and communication professors and students. |
