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1、IntroductionSince 1994, the emergence of Internet has made people enter a new eraInformation era. As Internet popularizes and develops, Internet has broken through the bounds and overcame the obstacles of region, country, nationality, language, tradition and belief, and then has formed universal har

2、mony of human civilization in the world. In this cyber world, people can read webzines, watch web TV, do e-business, online shopping, and online transaction, make net partners, even look for cyber lover and send e-mail. In a word, Internet is really all-powerful.In the Internet era, English, as the

3、main communication tool of Internet, has taken on the new changes and new features. A novel style of EnglishInternet English comes into being, which is quite different from the traditional English. Internet English has started a new chapter of English. So actually what is Internet English? “Standard

4、 Internet English are commonly used words in E-Mail, Discussion Group, Chat rooms, WWW Pages and everywhere on the net.” “Internet language includes those of technical terms, hacker slangs and acronyms related with Internet.” “The use of English language in the cyber space is changing at a confoundi

5、ng pace.” The above-mentioned definition of Internet English is defined by Yahoo. The Internet English attracts peoples attention with its rich and colorful content and continuous change day by day. And I believe that one day Internet English will be the commonly used language in peoples daily life.

6、 It not only facilitates the Internet, but also enriches present oral English. It may become a most popular language all over the world. Because Internet English is easy to use and understand, and sometimes doesnt abide by the rules of English grammar, so it is popular with those of English fans. An

7、d this article will discuss the influence of the Internet culture on the English development on four respects: the new words of Internet English; the expression features of Internet English; the comparison between Internet English and Internet Chinese and the influence of Internet English on the tra

8、ditional English. I hope I can give the great majority of Internet fans and English learners a small help and lend a hand to them to gain a good deal of enlightenment.Chapter I The New Words of Internet EnglishIn Internet era, Internet language was produced correspondingly as Internet associated thi

9、ng. They have formed distinctive specific feature during the process of using them. Internet made world become a small village. Gradually, the language of this village became English. So up till now, Internet English have rapidly developed along with the constantly emergence of new words which are t

10、oo many to recount. Those new words are enriching our life and Information era. The ways of forming new Internet words are many and varied. There are mainly four ways:A. Derivation Derivation is generally defined as the formation of words by adding word-forming or derivational affixes to bases. This

11、 process is also known as affixation. Some new Internet words are formed by adding related Internet affixes to common words, for example:e- meaning “electronic” e.g. e-business 电子商务 e-journal 电子杂志 e-trade 电子贸易 e-mail affair 网络爱情 e-money 电子货币 e-lancer 联网自由职业者e-form 电子表单digit- meaning “digital” e.g. d

12、igerait 网络专家（数据高手） digiteer 计算机高手cyber- meaning “internet” e.g. cyber 网络世界 cyberpunk 计算机高手cybersurf 网络漫游 cyberwar 电脑战 cyberphobia 电脑恐惧症 cyberspace 网络空间 cyberlover 网络情人 cyberculture 电脑化社会cyberspeak用网络上专用术语说话micro- meaning “very small” e.g. micromoney 网络微型货币 microserf 沉溺于网络的人micromarketing 微营销，指消费者通过I

13、nternet直接与生产企业发生联系，使企业对单个消费者的营销活动hyper- meaning “extreme” e.g. hyperlink 超级链 hypermedia 超媒体 hypertext 超文本-naut meaning “operator” e.g. internaut 网上漫游者 cybernaut 网络用户-ware meaning “software” e.g. freeware 免费软件 shareware 共享软件 donorware 馈赠软件 mindware 智件 groupware 群件B. CompoundingCompounding is the form

14、ation of new words by joining two or more bases. It is the most frequently used way of word-formation. In Internet era, this kind of word-formation has made a lot of new Internet words for people to use, e.g.online “在线”: online sales 在线销售 online shopping 在线购物 online transaction 在线交易 online service 在

15、线服务 online tutorial 在线教材internet “互联网”:internet recruiting 网上招聘 internet sales 网上销售 internet conference 网络上同时交谈 internet protocols 可以上互联网的通讯协定和语言virtual “虚拟的”:virtual community 虚拟社区 virtual computer 虚拟计算机 virtual address 虚拟地址 virtual drive 虚拟驱动器 virtual corporation 虚拟合作 virtual call 虚拟呼叫 virtual dev

16、ice 虚拟设备web “网络的”:web master 网管 web page 网页 web site 网站 webzine 网络杂志web TV 网络电视 web enthusiast WWW的狂热者 domain “区域的”:domain name 域名 domain database 域数据库domain synchronization 域同步 domain settings 域设置domain controller 域控制器C. ShorteningIn modern times, people tend to be economical in writing and speech

17、to keep up with the tempo of the new life style, without exception in Information era. Therefore, to save time one is likely to clip words that are frequently used. There are three types of shortening: acronymy, clipping and blending.1） AcronymyAcronymy is the process of forming new words by joining

18、 the initial letters of composite names of social and political organizations or phrases used as technical terms. Some Internet terms are very long and difficult to remember and write. The method of acronymy is a real linguistic innovation of the 20th century and does us a favor in Internet era. Som

19、e examples are as follows:BBS （Bulletin Board System） 公告牌系统WAP （Wireless Application Protocol） 无线上网协议PPP （Point-to-Point Protocol） 点对点协议IT （Information Technology） 信息技术CPU （Central Processing Unit） 中央处理器IE （Internet Explorer） 网络搜索器CGI （Common Gateway Interface） 通用桥接界面程式DNS （Domain Name System） 网域名称系

20、统GIF （Graphic Interchange Format） 储存图片的格式GUI （Graphic User Interface） 电脑绘图界面系统HTML （Hyper Text Markup Language） 超文字语言IP （Internet Protocol） 互联网的通讯协定、语言JPEG （Joint Photographers Experts Group） 联合图像专家组NFS （Network File System） 远距离操作的应用软件URL （Uniform Resource Locator） 全球资源定址器WWW （World Wide Web） 全球资讯网H

21、TTP （Hyper Text Transfer Protocol） 超文本传送协议WAIS （Wide Area Information Servers） 广域信息服务系统2）Clipping and BlendingAnother common way of making a word is to shorten, or clip a longer word, known as Clipping. It is the formation of new words by cutting a part off the original and using what remains instea

22、d. And Blending is the formation of new words or a word plus a part of another word. Using these two ways also can form some new Internet words and help us write them easily, for example:net + etiquette netiquette （网络礼仪）web + economics webnomics （网络经济）netiquette + citizen netizen （网际公民）information +

23、 channel info-channel （信息频道）information + seek info-seek （资询查找）inter + encyclopedia interpedia （因特网全书）keyboard + penpal keypal （网友，以电子邮件交往的人）information + software infoware （信息固化件）D. Extension of MeaningIt is a process by which a word which originally had a specialized meaning has now become general

24、ized or has extended to cover a broader and often less definite concept.Internet is a novelty. So in Internet English, a lot of common words are gifted new meanings which then became vivid in order to make people understand them tacitly and remember them with great interest, e.g.hacker 乱砍者 黑客bug 臭虫 故障、错误firewall 防火墙 网络安全保护gopher 地鼠 通路引导系统surf 冲浪 漫游网站cracker 爆竹 系统入侵者patch 补丁 网络安全修补措施menu 菜单 电脑的菜单net 网 电脑网络mouse potato