Social networking: the evolution of the English language

Abstract

This paper reports on the results of an innovative study about a social networking tool and its influence on the English language. The exploratory study, framed within a conventional collection data approach compiled through Whatsapp analysis can have a serious impact on the English language. The paper comes to the conclusion that written communication characteristics and features play an essential role to create a new way of communication, a different jargon. That emergent form of chatting represents a great contribution to the development of the English language. The idea of working in that field is to show data collection to help to discover the study of new ways of communication. So far, they used to be analysing starting from other modalities that are better known (writing and orality), what it is predisposed to prejudices and considering their peculiarities as deviations. A clear example of that is the most extensive description that implies the idea of "written orality", which is clearly a contradiction in their own terms.