| Introduction | 第1-9页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ The characteristics of Internet language | 第9-18页 |
| ·The phonological features of internet language | 第9-10页 |
| ·The frequent appearance of onomatopoeias | 第9页 |
| ·The original homophones | 第9-10页 |
| ·The sound repetitions | 第10页 |
| ·The lexical features of internet language | 第10-12页 |
| ·The frequent appearance of technological terms | 第10页 |
| ·The borrowings from English | 第10-11页 |
| ·The common use of acronyms | 第11页 |
| ·The newly-created vocabulary | 第11-12页 |
| ·The syntactic features of internet language | 第12-13页 |
| ·The violation of syntactic rules | 第12页 |
| ·The over-simplification of sentences | 第12-13页 |
| ·The blending of Chinese characters, Pinyin and English | 第13页 |
| ·The semiotic features of internet language | 第13-14页 |
| ·The various meanings of numbers | 第13-14页 |
| ·The meaningful signs | 第14页 |
| ·The stylistic features of internet language | 第14-18页 |
| ·The abundant wits and humors | 第14-15页 |
| ·The distinguishing colloquial language | 第15-18页 |
| ·The common use of exclamations and interrogative sentences | 第15-16页 |
| ·The popularization of dialect | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ The advantages and disadvantages of internet language | 第18-20页 |
| ·The advantages of internet language | 第18页 |
| ·Being convenient and keeping privacy | 第18页 |
| ·Being vivid and imaginary | 第18页 |
| ·The disadvantages of internet language | 第18-20页 |
| ·Being too casual | 第19页 |
| ·Being too vulgar | 第19-20页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ The social background of the development of Internet language | 第20-25页 |
| ·The technological foundation of the development of Internet language | 第20-22页 |
| ·The popularization of personal computers | 第20-21页 |
| ·The development of Internet | 第21-22页 |
| ·The cultural background of the development of Internet language | 第22页 |
| ·The psychological feature of netizens | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ Internet language is a language variety | 第25-41页 |
| ·The participants in the internet form a virtual speech community | 第25-33页 |
| ·The analysis on the context of situation | 第33-41页 |
| ·The register study on internet language | 第34-37页 |
| ·the research on the situation with 'SPEAKING' principles | 第37-41页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ Social attitudes toward Internet language | 第41-46页 |
| ·the negative attitudes | 第41-43页 |
| ·the positive attitudes | 第43-46页 |
| Chapter Ⅵ My personal view on Internet language | 第46-54页 |
| ·Internet language is a language variety | 第46-47页 |
| ·Internet language should be treated fairly | 第47-52页 |
| ·Internet language is not inferior language | 第47-48页 |
| ·Internet language will not spoil standard Chinese | 第48-50页 |
| ·Internet language signifies the third modern Chinese revolution | 第50-52页 |
| ·Is it necessary to regulate internet language? | 第52-54页 |
| Conclusion: | 第54-56页 |
| Bibliography | 第56-60页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第60-61页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第61-63页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ | 第63-64页 |
| Appendix Ⅳ | 第64-66页 |
| Acknowledgment | 第66页 |
