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Teenagers in Cyberspace: An Investigation of Language Use and Language Change in Internet Chatrooms.
Peer reviewedMerchant, Guy – Journal of Research in Reading, 2001
Illustrates how the use of popular electronic communication is resulting in linguistic innovation within new, virtual social networks in a way that reflects more wide-reaching changes in the communication landscape. Suggests that teenagers and young people are in the vanguard of these processes of change as they fluently exploit the possibilities…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Computer Mediated Communication, Internet, Interpersonal Communication
