SOCIOLINGUISTICSPRESENTATION BY

SEEMAB ABBAS

QURAT UL AIN

MOBAH MURYAM

AMNA FAREED

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Back ground of study

Significance

Research Questions

Hypothesis

LITERATURE REVIEW

Language

Society

Sociolinguistics

Sociology of language

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Type of research

Population

Sample

Tool of collecting data

DATA ANALYSIS

CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

Our project is about

how social media is

affecting English

Language.

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY:

This survey was

conducted during the

month of April 2014. In

this survey we took

online comments from

people on facebook,

twitter and other social

websites.

Then we analyze either positive effect is more or

negative. Our main target was those people who

already using social media ( facebook, twitter or

other chatting blogs)

OBJECTIVES

Either Social Media is affecting English Language, positively or negatively.

To highlight that how language attitudes are changing on social media.

Is Social Media using standard English or slang language?

How slang and textspeakaffecting written language?

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY:

Transformative impact of social media on student written

communication skills.

Use of social media among polytechnic students; its

possible effects on students’ writing skills

Based on responses from survey participants

SMS text messaging functions and social media could

heighten the tendency among students to adopt non-

standard uses and contracted forms of English words

RESEARCH QUESTIONS:

How Social Media Lingo’s

Affecting Academic

Vocabulary?

Is Social Media or

Technology Affecting Reading

And Writing?

How do you feel social media

is affecting our oral and

written communications?

HYPOTHESIS STATEMENT:

SOCIAL

MEDIA

FRACTURED

ENGLISH

LANGUAGE

LANGUAGE

"A language consists of

symbols that convey

meaning, plus rules for

combining those symbols,

that can be used to

generate an infinite variety

of messages."

(Thomson Wadsworth, 2007)

SOCIETY

A human society is

a group of people

involved in

persistent interpersonal

relationships, or a large

social grouping sharing

the same geographical

or social territory,

typically subject to the

same political authority

and dominant cultural

expectations.

Study of language in

relation to the society.

Study of society in

relation with language.

SOCIOLINGUISTICSSOCIOLOGY OF

LANGUAGE

SOCIAL MEDIA:

Social media is the

interaction among

people in which they

create, share or

exchange information

and ideas in virtual

communities

and networks.

HOW SOCIAL MEDIA IS

FRACTURING ENGLISH

LANGUGE?

Following are the ways through which social media

is fracturing English Langauge:

Using slang language

Informal way of using language

Shortening of words

Homophones

Incomplete sentence structure

Abbreviations

Textspeak

Violate rules of grammar

Brief but ungrammatical

PREVIOUS RESEARCHES:The Impact of Texting/SMS Language on Academic

Writing of Students

RESEARCH BY Shazia Aziz et al./

ABSTRACT

Research determine the presence or absence of SMS

features in the academic writing of the participants.

Triangulation was used for data collection i.e.

questionnaires for learners and educators and samples of

the learners’ English written work were examined for SMS

features.

RESEARCH BY PENN STATE:

Text messaging allows tweens to send notes to

family and friends in a quick and efficient manner,

but it leads to a decline in their language and

grammar skills.

Our research is

qualitative.

We took view points of

the people of different

age groups.

All of them are addict of

using social media.

SAMPLE

People using social media regularly. And we

collected our data through facebook google twitter

and other social websites.

TOOL OF COLLECTING DATA

We post our research question on

www.readblog.com and www.ideas.time.com and

www.facebook.com

We also survey previous researches on slang

language techspeak and bad impact of texting on

language skills.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

How Social Media Lingo’s Affecting Academic

Vocabulary?

Is Social Media or Technology Affecting Reading

And Writing?

How do you feel social media is affecting our oral

and written communications?

DATA ANALYSIS

RESEARCH HAS THREE MAIN SCHOOL OF

THOUGHTS:

Some educators and students think that textspeak

has negative impact on writing skills of student.

Enhances their written communication skills, and

therefore is a blessing.

Social Media has neither positive nor negative impact

on student’s writing.

1ST SCHOOL OF THOUGHT

The first school of thought bases its argument on the fact that for the sake of brevity, concision, the simple message system (SMS) and chatting on social media affects writing such as grammar, syntax, punctuation and capitalization. It is diluting English Language.

USE OF SLANG LANGUAGE:

ABBRIVIATIONS OR SHORT TERMS:

SOMEONE LIKE ME:

2ND SCHOOL OF THOUGHT

People believe that

social media does

not really a threat.

The more students

write, the more they

improve upon their

writing skills.

Therefore, its

increased use rather

enhances the literacy

of users, instead of

harming it.

3RD SCHOOL OF THOUGHT

Some has doubt whether social media really has

any effect (positive or negative) on English

grammar.

It is the way how we use language on social media.

52% thinks that social media is fracturing English Language, 36% believes that social media is not fracturing English Language and 12% thinks that social media has both positive and negative effects on Language.

socila media fractured language

social media doesnot fracturedlangauge

both positive and negativeeffects

CONCLUSION:

With the ever increasing use of text messaging

among students this practice is damaging the use

of language in speaking and writing

Affect the standard forms in the long run.

Bad impact of SMS on the formal writing of

university students.

Poor spelling and punctuation habits of learners

Poor grades and a diminished knowledge of

correct Standard English.

The incorrect use of full stops, commas and

exclamation marks.

That’s why we need to

use standard form of

language, so that the

beauty and pure form of

language remains safe

as language is also

known as identity of the

group of people using

that language.