The article examines how the norms of the Uzbek literary language are being reinterpreted in digital communication, identifying the levels at which change occurs and the forces driving it from cognitive-pragmatic and sociolinguistic perspectives. Treating the norm as a social convention that mediates between the language system and speech, the study classifies orthographic-graphic, lexical-derivational, morphosyntactic and pragmatic-etiquette shifts observed in messenger, social media and online news texts. The findings indicate that digital writing does not so much erode the norm as stratify it, giving rise to a multi-layered normative system in which appropriateness depends on the communicative situation. Keyboard layouts, autocorrect software and platform interfaces are shown to function as new, technological agents of norm formation, while the unfinished script reform amplifies orthographic variation. The article argues for a flexible, monitoring-based model of codification and for situational literacy as a guiding principle of language education in the digital age.
Trends in The Transformation of Uzbek Language Norms in Digital Communication
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