Does my smartphone shape how I speak?

Digitalization has profoundly changed our everyday communication. Will digital technologies such as AI or smartphones lead to our language becoming impoverished sooner or later?

No, says sociolinguist Florian Busch: "Language use is becoming more flexible as a result of digital communication. In everyday digital life, there is not just one dialect and one standard language, but we are constantly coming into contact with different varieties of our language. This contact fills our communicative toolbox. Overall, the digital use of language brings great individual and social benefits."

You can find out exactly how this process works in the news article from the University of Bern.