ICT and the changes in the written language

AbstractThe development of new communication and information media (ICT) has an enormous impact on the development of the language system, including its written discourse. The Internet itself has changed the way of communication drastically. People's communication is much faster, less caressly done and often not well conceived. Also other ICT media, such as social network facebooks or chat groups, make the written speech less structured, more abbreviated in its expressions and less polite. Others, such as e-learning, used in education, try to motivate and encourage a learner in his/ her studies and therefore its content must be more dynamic and eye-catching to engage the learner. The purpose of the presentation is therefore to describe the changes in the written speech, particularly in English and show its consequences on communication