Luận Văn A comparative study on Internet slangs used in English and Vietnamese

Khóa luận tốt nghiệp
Đề tài: A comparative study on Internet slangs used in English and Vietnamese


TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgment
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Rationale of the study
2. Aim of the study
3. Scope of the study
4. Method of the study
5. Design of the study
PART II: DEVELOPMENT
Chapter one: Theoretical background
1. Nonstandard words
1.1. Slangs
1.1.1. General slangs
1.1.2. Special slangs
1.2. Vulgar words (vulgarisms)
1.3. Dialectal words
2. The distinction between slangs and colloquialism
3. Internet slangs
3.1. Definition
3.2. The origin
3.3. Sources of internet slang
3.3.1. Chat rooms
3.3.2. Forums and Facebook
3.3.3. Private Blog
Chapter two: Types of Internet slangs
1. Acronym and abbreviation
2. Single letter words and numbers
3. Characters
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4. Speech deduction
5. ―L33t‖ speech
6. Rhyming slangs
Chapter three: Comparison between English Internet slangs and Vietnamese
ones
1. Base on function of Internet slangs
1.1. Similarities
1.2. Differences
2. Base on classification of Internet slangs
PART III: CONCLUSION
1. Vietnamese Teenagers are abusing Internet slangs
2. Are you learning Internet slangs?
3. Parents should know about Internet slangs
REFERENCES
APPENDIX 1
APPENDIX 2
APPENDIX 3


INTRODUCTION
I. Rationale
Internet is a global system of inter - connected computer networks that
use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users
worldwide. Internet today has become no longer strange to people in modern
life. Everyone accesses to the Internet to search information, to use services or
entertainment or perhaps to do business. Now it seems to become an integral
part of our lives.
Along with the developments of technology, Internet has made more
and more changes. Internet slangs terms were developed by users over the
years. Internet slangs is what Internet users have coined and promulgated and
now has become popular in many websites, chat rooms, bogs or forums.
Internet slangs is a very casual speech in writing that uses certain words,
phrases or expressions in the form of abbreviations to convey a message
which may be vivid and concise, sarcastic, racy, humorous or even vulgar in
meaning. Internet slangs consist of words formed from the initial letter or
letters of a series of words in a phrase. Such terms typically originated with
the purpose of saving keystrokes and many people use the same abbreviation
in text messages, some believes that using this language is stylish. As the
Internet has grown new acronyms and slang words seem to be made
everyday, and keeping up with them can be confusing. Have you ever
confused when you saw on the websites or blogs some slangs? Have you ever
felt shocked to see a multitude of symbols or odd characters? Those lead to
my decision on studying Internet slangs to find out the similarities and
differences between English and Vietnamese ones.
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II. Aim of the study
The research paper:
 Aims at understanding more about Internet slangs used by teenagers to
reduce confusion, troubles when they encountered.
 Learning more about the diversity of language.
III. Scope of the study
Due to the time limitation, resources and my knowledge, this research
paper only focuses on Internet slangs used by teenagers especially by 9X
Teens in some common websites, blogs, chat rooms or forums. For my
purposes, I will focus on an intersection of those adolescent years and the
teenage years, generally defined as ages 13-19.
IV. Method of the study
The method of this study is:
 The comparative and contrastive analysis to distinguish similarities and
differences between two languages;
 Consultation with the supervisor;
 Material collection: to collect internet slangs on the common websites,
blogs, chatting rooms or Internet forums and some basic slangs‘
dictionaries.
V. Design of study
This study consists of three parts:
Part I: Introduction, which states the reasons of the study, the aims of the
study, the scope of the study, the methods of the study and the design of the
study.
Part II: Development: The main content including three chapters:
The first chapter presents the theoretical background. It focuses on
some general definition of non-standard words, origin and source of Internet
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slangs.
The second chapter presents types of English Internet slangs .
The third chapter states the comparison between English and Vietnamese
Internet slangs with their function, usages and classification to find the
similarities and differences.
Part III: Conclusion of the whole study which summarizes the topic and states
some troubles and recommendations for Internet slang users.
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Standard
Non -standard
Dialectal Vulgar
Bookish
Slangs
General
Colloquial
Special
Neutral
Poeticarchaic
General Scientific Non -assimilated
English Words
DEVELOPMENT
Chapter one: Theoretical Background
The stylistic aspect of the English vocabulary is varied. English words
may be classified in different ways. The following diagram illustrates (H
Basic (Hoang Tat Truong, Basic English Lexicology)
1. Non-standard words
Non-standard words are chiefly used in spoken English thus being
considered as non-standard colloquialisms. Non-standard vocabulary of
extreme informality, usually not limited to any region. It includes newly
coined words, shortened forms, and standard words used playfully out of their
usual contexts. These are subdivided into:
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Slangs
Vulgar words
Dialectal words
1.1. Slangs