When we refer to the language of a particular nation, we need to take into
account the modern trends of globalization as well as the urge to preserve
the cultural identity and language. With the appearance of the social
networks, followed by an increase in frequency of communication on the
networks, there arise anglicisms and other abbreviated words in writing,
which are typical amongst younger generations. The language used on the
social media illustrates to a great extent the creativity of its authors,
but at the same time an increase in the mistakes and irregularities in
comparison to the standard language. An empirical research on this topic has
been conducted during May and June 2018, with a sample of 1,148 students of
undergraduate studies in the Republic of Serbia. The aim of the research was
to establish to what extent they use jargon in the form of abbreviations in
Serbian and English in their everyday communication on the social networks,
which constitutes a part of the written language used by younger
generations. It was also examined the frequency of (un)regularity in the
writing of the Latin letters Dj, Dz, S, Z, C, C, while chatting, as well as
the particular writing habits depending on the sources used for writing
(such as paper, PC, mobile phone). The research has shown that 80% of the
students in the Republic of Serbia use frequently a pen to write on a paper,
hence a larger percentage of students prefer the traditional mode of writing
opposed to the digital writing. The students more often use the English
keyboard on their PCs, which means that they type the Latin characters in
Serbian without diacritics, and 24% of the students occasionally need time
to think how to write a particular letter on paper. About 21% of the
students have stated that whilst writing with a pen on a piece of paper they
writ? dj instead of dj; dz instead of dz. Another important fact is that over
40% of the students use ?jargon? abbreviations in Serbian whilst writing,
and the percentage of the students that use the abbreviations in English
constitutes to 26%, which should not be neglected in particularly since 40%
frequently use anglicisms in their expression. To the knowledge of the
authors of this paper, there were no researches done on this topic in the
Republic of Serbia in particularly focusing on the university students.
Zweisprachigkeit in den Literaturen Estlands
