Hi y’all. I’m majoring in English and I’m trying to make a research paper. I really wanna add a report to my thesis. Please answer the following questions if you have some time. Also you don’t have to make the answes super large if you don’t want to. Just your participation would be much appreciated. Questions.
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Age?
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Profession?
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Do you enjoy reading books? If yes, from which era? (New or old)
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Do you think the language used in earlier pieces are different from the language used in contemporary books?
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Do you think the change in language that is happening in the present time is happening faster than before due to the involvement of technology and social media? (Use of Slangs and informal internet language)
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Contemporary books nowadays use short-forms, internet slangs, emojis, abbreviations or even insert images in the pages. According to you are these positive or negative changes? Thanks in advance lovely people.
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Yes. Probably the majority of books I read are from the 1700s, but there’s a lot of modern books and even older books that I like as well.
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I’m not sure. It seems logical that the Internet would spread slang faster than before, but even looking at older literature, you have changes in the language being used in literature that take place just as quickly as they do now; audiences in 1770s France found plays written in the 1720s just as old-fashioned and full of weird, stilted dialogue as a modern reader might find something written in the mid-1900s. I do think the Internet is having a big impact on literature, but moreso because it allows anyone to write books for people to read rather than because it’s directly changing the language that writers are using.
I can’t speak to emojis in books since I’ve never seen that, but afaik books have always used slang and abbreviations and illustrations
Thank you so much