Nobody knows how the Internet will change people's habits. EMC (Electronic Mediated Communication) is a newer term. Changes in culture and language take time to adapt to, use, and eventually become part of a language. Nothing is guaranteed, but there are signs.

A. EMC as writing or speech 

 

1. EMC draws on traits from both sides of the speech/writing divide.

 

a.  We write e-mails, not speak them.

b.  Most written language (legal, religious, etc.) can now be accessed on the web with minimal 

style alteration other than an adaptation to the electronic medium.

c. Apart from audio/video interactions (like Skype or iChat), EMC writing lacks the facial expressions, gestures, and body posture and distance rules that are crucial in communicating personal thoughts and attitudes and moderating social connections. 

 

2. New Communicative Opportunities in EMC

 

a. EMC outputs display differences from traditional writing with respect to their space-bound presence.

b. Messages in asynchronic chat groups and blogs tend to be long-term in character; but those in synchronic groups, virtual worlds, and instant messaging are not. 

c. The majority of the latter is factually communicative, as is evident from the vast amount of reference material in libraries.                     

B.  EMC offers new communicative possibilities in the way people can manipulate written language.   

                                                                          

1. New Kinds of Text 

 

a. There have been huge advances here since the early days when the stupid software, having been told to ban anything containing the string S-E-X, disallowed messages about Sussex, Essex, and many other innocent terms.

b. the text is manipulated to include keywords, especially in the heading and first paragraph, to ensure that a salient term is prioritized.

c. We receive a message which contains, say, three different points in a single paragraph.

 

2. Texts Sans Frontières

 

a. They are created at a specific point in time; and once created, they are static and permanent.

b. The distinction has commercial importance in online advertising, where an ad server is likely to serve a different range of ads to the top page of a site compared to its constituent pages.

c. The content comes from an inventory which is fixed at any one point in time, but frequently refreshed.

 

3.  Panchronicity

 

a. Texts are classically treated as synchronic entities, by which we mean we disregard the changes that were made during the process of composition and treat the finished product as if time did not exist.

b.  Such texts, whose identity is dependent on features from different time frames, I call panchronic.

c. The traditional terminology of first edition, second edition, first edition with corrections, ISBN numbering, and so on, seems totally inadequate to account for the variability we now encounter.

4. Anonymity

a. And in the case of the last of these, its absence presents linguists with a particularly difficult situation.

b. When we classify texts into types, we rely greatly on extralinguistic information.

c.  Operating behind a false persona seems to make people less inhibited: they may feel emboldened to talk more and in different ways from their real-world linguistic repertoire.

5.  The Future

a.  The main issue for the future will be how to deal with the increased presence of spoken outputs, as a result of growth in Voice over Internet and mobile communication.

b. The biggest question marks to do with change on the Internet relate to the way EMC is developing—always difficult to predict as technology rapidly changes.

c. Indeed, in some parts of the world, where a wired electricity supply is unreliable or absent (such as a great deal of Africa), the only way of reaching the Internet is via mobile phones.

 

 

1.  Any sets of beliefs about language articulated by users as a rationalization or justification of perceived language structure and use

a.  Language ideologies figure prominently in policies and decisions concerning official and standard languages, language planning, language academies, and language education policies.

b.  Examining conceptions of language ideology that manifest in newspaper coverage of ethnic conflict, separatist and other movements, and minority politics

c.  A political science perspective on the politics of language, focusing on the debate among political theorists over their prioritizing the language rights issue within research on normative language policy

Summary:
Any collection of views about language expressed by users as a rationalization or justification of perceived language structure and use" is the topic of political language research 

Language ideologies influence official languages, language planning, language academies, and language education programs. Languaging ideology, according to Woolard, mediates between social structure and speech forms. According to Blommaert and Verschueren, ethnic conflict, separatist and other movements, and minority politics are covered in newspapers from a bottom-up perspective. To connect political theorists with sociolinguistic research on NLP, Blommaert proposes a new conceptual framework. An important theme in Blackledge's  work is minority language rights. A bilingual method is the most successful way to educate some children, according to him. MLR, according to Blackledge, is a hybrid of country, heritage, globalization, and new media. To manage and govern immigrant families' choices of housing, work, and education, Pfaff contends. 

Blackledge investigates specific language policies and practices, as well as governmental and popular discourses. Two opposing philosophies are identified: the symbolic association of language and nation and the instrumental use of language for empowerment.

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