@article{2018,title={THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE IN THE DIGITAL AGE},abstractNode={This article is a reflection on the linguistic changes concerning the Italian language due to ICT. The technological revolution is a global phenomenon which has started to affect the English language. Hence, it has contaminated every idiom and, of course, also the language of the “Bel Paese”. This investigation is specifically focused on the linguistic features of Italian used in social networks. This language is concise, dialogical, full of English loanwords, abbreviations and acronyms; it uses neologisms, youthful expressions, emoticons, emojis and onomatopoeic words taken from the world of comic books. The use of “punctuation marks” has also been affected by the digital world. Thanks to online communities and Youtube channels, İtalian dialects are spreading all over the world. This investigation has adopted a corpus linguistic approach. The reference corpus is made up of 200 posts, gathered from 2017 to 2018 from Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp messages and blogs.},author={Antonella ELİA},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}