COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE USED IN SOCIAL MEDIA AND NATURAL LANGUAGE

ABSTRACT

This research is a comparative analysis of language used in social media and natural language. Due to the increase in technological innovations over the years, there has been a rise in the creation of different social media platforms and this social network has adopted in a different language style as a means of communication. The trend of this language style has led to different varieties of language such as acronyms, abbreviations, symbols etc which is different from the natural language discourse. This research set to compare the pattern of communication in social media and natural language, as well as show how abbreviations, acronyms and symbols are accommodated in social media discourse to replace sentential constructions in natural language discourse and to discuss the differences that exist between these two language styles. The relevance of this research is to examine its linguistic characteristics and its implication to the field of linguistics and the cause of the variation of language among internet users which now pose a threat to natural language.