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The new media technology has completely changed the way people/ninteract with each other and these new methods of communication have/nalso influenced the use of languages and therefore the need of analysing/nits influence. This paper presents an example of these changes: the use/nof a written version of a dialect –which according to the main definitions/nof this word is an oral expression of a language– on the computer/nmediated communication. The chosen regional variety of a language is/nthe Austrian dialect of Styria. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the/nwritten use of the Styrian dialect among people born in this state in their/ndaily computer mediated communication through emails and social/nmedia, for instance Facebook, in contrast with standard German. In/norder to carry out this analysis a survey by Internet was conducted, in/nwhich survey respondents were asked about their speaking and writing/nhabits, for example when they speak in the university with professors or/nwhen they write messages to friends. The results show that the dialect/nform is often used. Speakers, who admitted to write in dialect, switch/nbetween standard and dialect depending on the recipient of their/nmessage. These conclusions point out that the new media, especially the/nsocial media, has motivated a written version of the dialect of Styria |
