Emoticons and language economy : towards the impoverishment of spanish

Abstract

The increase in access to communication technologies in recent years has led to the transformation of language thanks to the incorporation of communicative elements of virtual environments.
These elements are transcending from the computer world to the physical world, leading us to the impoverishment of the written expression of individuals.
The evolution of the media and the technological boom of recent years has recreated and transformed social networks, digitizing them, expanding some and uniting others (Yuasa, Saito, Mukawa 2006).
This has given us the ability to interact with people who are not only restricted to our immediate context, but also to the extended one, which when accessing them allows us to be part of large communities that little by little within their specificity are differentiated into networks academic, sports, religious, political and social, in which many individuals find a place and a destination.