Technology

• Social media


  • Each platform has own "norms"
  • e.g. language used on TikTok may be different to Facebook
  • Not always informal language
  • LinkedIn > connected to colleagues, speak/write in formal setting
• Abbreviations and slang 


  IMO

  LOL
• Written text Vs Spoken language 


  • Communicating asynchronously (hours delay between messages)
  • Immediate communication in spoken
• Changing functions of email


  • Used to be quick alternative for letters
  • Emails are now longer, have greetings and sign offs
  • became much formal than it used to

  In messages, no sign off and much more informal

  • Shows that people change language use under different circumstances