Research On The Social Functions Of Network Language Communication

Network language is a new kind of language, which is frequently used on theInternet. It is also a set of information symbols of the virtual world, a newcharacteristic feature in sociological and sociolinguistic studies. The appearance ofnetwork language is a result of society’s diversity, so the studies on networklanguage play a great role in the investigations of social changes, human’s socialbehaviour and other social problems. In recent years scientists in different fields ofstudies at home and abroad have been used network language as an object of study.Network language is a social phenomenon of the new era, that have attracted theinterest of many people.Social network is a multifunctional interaction space, appeared on the Internetrecently, it has a big influence on youngsters, especially on students, social networkitself and a speciai interactive language, created by its users, to a great extent haveguided young peopele’s social behaviour.The paper has analysed the interactive language used in social networks of twocountires–Russia and China, namely the language used in social network’s statuses.The paper has given an empirical analysis on “renrenwang” social network’s500statuses written in February2012and “vkontakte” social network’s500statuseswritten in the period from March to May2012, has analysed statuses and statuses’language from several angles, and also through this analysis has learned the formsof expression of status language’s communication social functions. Meanwhile, adocument analysis has also been performed, it has studied the characteristics andresearch results in related fields at home and abroad. After the processing ofseparate studies on each of the social network’s interactive language, the paper hasmade a comparative analysis on the statuses’ language of the two social networks.According to results of the analysis a typical model of each social network’s statusehas been made, it has shown differences and common features between them.The paper has found that communication function and amusement function,realized through the network language, are the most notable, they have the mostobvious influence on students. The paper in some ways has answered the questionedmentioned above, and emphasized the urgency of studies in this field.