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The area websprache (web speech) offers information and articles on language and communication on the internet: Chat, news, email etc. Obviously, the term websprache does not consider a "special speech of the internet" - such a language, also including young people's language and advertising jargon, does not exist at all.

Surf-Tipp: Inflektive

*begeistertsei*, *megaknuddel*, *aufdenbodenwerf*. These so-called "Inflektive" (non-inflectionals) are typical of all kind of chats. Find out more about their forms and their origin. more

NEW: Books for free

Exclusive at mediensprache.net: Download the first monography in German language about language and communication on the Internet and the continuation in 2005 free of charge:

Sprache und Kommunikation im Internet (1998)

Websprache.net (2005)

Chat: Between oral communication and writing

Chat communication is one of the most interesting and most investigated/surveyed phenomena. more.

Weblog: a system for all events

Never say never again. But never it was simpler, to publish information on the Internet: Texts, photos, speech and films. mediensprache.net is naturally particularly interested in the language of weblogs. more

(E-)Learning: Internet and Learning

Virtual Learning & Teaching: a real blessing? An article about Speech and the criticize of media. more [in German]

The latest Networx

Martin Voigt has been engaged in the research of "Soziolinguistische Studie zur Beziehungsarbeit und Identitätskonstruktion in Mädchenfreundschaften" in our serial Networx No. 61. more

Literature: New entries

Brommer, Sarah et al. (2012). "Mediennutzung heutiger Jugendlicher: Generation Facebook?". An article in the anthology "Sprache der Generationen". Mannheim et al. An online publication. more

Schlobinski, Peter (2012). "Der Mythos von der Cybersprache - und seine sprachpuristischen Folgen". An article in the anthology "Sprachmythen - Fiktion oder Wirklichkeit". Frankfurt am Main. more

Voigt, Martin (2011). "Soziolinguistische Studie zur Beziehungsarbeit und Identitätskonstruktion in Mädchenfreundschaften". An online publication in our serial 'Networx'. more

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