Computer Mediated-Communication and Stylistics

Cyber language is a third language,which lies between spoken language and written language.Cyber language consists of three elements:1) technical terms that are related to computer science and network technology;2) new words and phrases that are related to cyber culture;and 3) cyber slang that is used mainly in CMC(Qin Xiubai,2003).Cyber language has its own linguistic features at four levels,namely,phonology,graphology,lexicon,syntax,and discourse.