설문 조사를 통해서 본 통신 언어 사용에 대한 연구

The objective is to investigate chatting rooms and the current state of the use of communication language on the internet using a questionnaire survey. Important findings among the questionnaire results can be summarized as follows. ① University students use less swears or slangs than middle or high school students. This means that middle and high school students use swears or slangs as a popular language, and they do not control themselves in using them as they grow up. ② Problems in computer chatting conversation, i.e., 'destruction of our language', 'use of swears or slangs', as well as 'meaningless conversation' or 'rough conversation' were pointed out ③ When chatters used their real names, they used much less lying, exaggeration, swearing, etc., but still did not try to speak properly observing the language standard. ④ The younger chatters are, the more they use communication language as the popular language. ⑤ The reason why chatters use communication language might be understood as a kind of 'language selection' to adapt to the communication environment as well as to a principle of economic efficiency and expression. Therefore, communication language has to be accepted as a social dialect and education as to its efficient and proper use is needed.