Towards Excellence

(ISSN No. 0974-035X)
(An indexed refereed & peer-reviewed journal of higher education)
UGC-MALAVIYA MISSION TEACHER TRAINING CENTRE GUJARAT UNIVERSITY

THE CONSEQUENCES OF USING INSTAGRAM ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Authors:

Sneha Prajapati, Ansuya Chaudhari

Abstract:

The purpose of this research paper is to find the consequences on the English Language by the use of Instagram. In the Age of Information and Technology, people are connected with each other with the help of using various Social Networking Sites like WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, etc. With the help of all these Social Networking Sites, one can share his/her views, ideas and knowledge to anyone in the world. All these things have played an important role to form the English Language as the ‘World Language’. All these are the positive impacts but there are some negative impacts on the English Language of using all these communicative applications. The researcher will analyse the consequences of Instagram messages on English Language with the help of various parameters like transformation in grammar: articles, spellings and improper capitalization, sentence structure, abbreviations, punctuation marks, transliteration and use of numbers and symbols.   

Keywords:

Consequences, Instagram, English Language

Vol & Issue:

VOL.13, ISSUE No.4, December 2021