Linguistic Variations in HyperConnection Space: Comparison of Korean, Romanian, and English

This study gives attention to the fact that the current change toward a hyper-connected society with the development of technology can affect linguistic changes. The changes that create a hyperconnected society are driven by technological innovations in transportation and communication, and compared to transport, communication that enables connectivity without physical resistance is the core of the innovation that creates a hyperconnected society. However, communication and transportation are not competitive, but complementary, and they seem to be aiming for a unified world in terms of connectivity. However, communication in a hyperconnected world provides a framework of recognition different from direct (face-to-face) communication by the operation of the medium that enables it. By the definition of communication in the virtual world, which is hyperconnected by a medium, We can understand that written language is centered on. However, the function of the written language in the field of cyber language (or netspeak) is limited to a part of a complex symbolic system that works with various symbolic systems that convey visual images, and this functional change is a key reason for language change in virtual space. In other words, for the part where visual images are more suitable for communication, written language takes on only secondary functions, resulting in many abbreviations. For this reason, the written language in the hyperconnected space develops into a state that has lost a lot of the unique characteristics of planned and refined communication of thought, which is so different that it is called “second literacy” compared to the existing written language.