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Examining the linguistics effects of various styles of lexical compressions
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Language has been an integral part of communication and human beings continue to find new ways of communication in an attempt to bridgethe distance between individuals. Internet technology has greatly influenced human life especially in the area of communication. According to Adejub (2010);
The entire world comprising six continents and many countries of about 6,881, 800,000 (as the estimated world population from United States census Bureau) has been reduced to a global village through the dynamism of communication with the aid of Information Technology (ICT).
ICT is a term used to refer to a range of technologies for gathering, storing, retrieving, processing, analyzing and transmitting information.
The focus of this research work is on the linguistic implications of lexical compressions among users of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The examined CMCgenres are Short Messaging Services (SMS), 2GO and WHATSAPP. The current accessible CMC input and output continues to be mainly textual coupled with graphics and pictures and even sound and video clips. December (1997) explains thatmore complex communication technologies like:oral video conferencing, computer-mediated face to face communication including visual images in real time already exist but are still expensive and so far not commonly used, although, it is envisioned that their usage will spread owing to the speed with which CMC advanced. Herry (2007) defines CMC as predominantly text-based human-human interaction mediated by networked computers or mobile telephony. This encompasses SMS as a text-based format like: Instant Messaging (IM), and Social Network Service (SNS) thus covering all of them within the remit of CMC. As Eldridge and Grinter (2001) aptly sum it up, mobile phones are in effect mini-terminals (computers) for text-based communication.
