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Over the years, technology has revolutionized our globe and daily lives. Additionally, it has created amazing tools and resources, putting useful information at our fingertips so much that we have had new quicker ways to communicate, especially through social networking or digital platforms. And this study aims to investigate ways of English used in some famous American universities’ Facebook pages to find out several newly developed linguistic features based on theoretical viewpoints of Bodomo (2010) and Crystal (2006, 2011) with the support of a qualitative approach. The results show that innovative linguistic features are developed into some trends of styles, grammar use, pragmatics, and vocabulary due to two groups of factors, namely face-to-face communication habits and socio-technical affordances. Moreover, this research makes an effortful contribution to reflecting the mutual effect in the rapid development of English and media technology that are becoming more and more dominant and attract large numbers of new users every day.
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Nguyen, M.V., Le, H.H. (2023). Mutual Effect Between Language Use and Media Technology via Digital Communication. In: Mirzazadeh, A., Erdebilli, B., Babaee Tirkolaee, E., Weber, GW., Kar, A.K. (eds) Science, Engineering Management and Information Technology. SEMIT 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1808. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40395-8_19
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