在人类语言媒介物由声波到光波再到电波的历史发展中,适应各种语境、各种交际工具的语言交际变体,以及语言的词汇、语法、语篇表达逐渐丰富,使语言的功能得到极大发展。语言技术对语言生活乃至社会发展产生重要影响。人类当今已经进入网络媒体时代,“语言装备”和语言生活也取得了极大进步,这与新媒体语言的发展一起,对当今的语言学研究提出了新的挑战。
In the course of historical development, language media have advanced from sound waves to light waves to electronic waves, adapted in each case to a diversity of contexts and a variety of communicative tools. Over time, languages have enriched their vocabulary, grammar and expression, with resultant progress in language function. Language technology has exerted a significant influence on language life and even on the development of society. As humanity steps into the age of online media, "language apparatus" has improved markedly, as has language life. Taken with the development of new media language, this presents new challenges to contemporary linguistics.