Emerging Trends of Language in Digital World

Abstract

Literary scholarship may well be able to maintain its important position in the digitized world, but this requires open dialogue with cultural and media studies. The main focus lies in the emerging field of digital literature. Whereas digital publishing and hypertext editions bear significant consequences for research and education, it is cyber textuality, in particular, which is fundamentally changing our notions of literature. The two main arguments are: First, literature in the traditional sense has given way to electronic and increasingly, digital media in the overall media landscape. Second, literature in itself has changed significantly since the birth of electronic media. Both these arguments bear crucid consequences for the teaching of literature today. The objective of my paper will be to ponder over the fact of the language that is used especially in social media (Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp).