New Media English: Caught between Counter Culture, Convergence and Progress

Abstract

English as a language has undergone a history of transitions. These, due to historical events have contributed for the growth of the language. We are now in a world where the New Media is taking on English as a language and goes well beyond the structural patterns adding convergent symbols so that there is a global reach. The abandonment of structures like grammar, spelling and syntax enables them to converse with people who have only bare minimal knowledge of the language of English even. These are signs of counter linguistic culture and at the same time these are the convergent mantras of the Globalized world. These are also signs of the progress of the language. Here the efforts taken by the two systems of English education may not have been really used, but only in reference to them can we recognize the signs of deviation.