A Study on the Applicability of Language Meme as a Spreading Medium of Juvenile Slang

As the use of smart phones among teenage became a daily routine, the spreading of slang language in the SNS platform has been immense. As such, this research has focused on the cultural phenomenon acting apart from the users(juveniles) of the spreading of slang as the main cause of the that effects the spreading of the slang as the language culture of the juveniles. This study examines the applicability of the language meme as a language spreading medium by examining it from the viewpoint of the activity of the language meme which is difficult to control by the juveniles themselves. As a suggestion, to observe the juvenile slang spreading stages through the view point of meme, the proliferation is not the juvenile themselves, the selfish gene and the cultural imitator, meme, is the spreading force and the language replication as the contagion through juveniles, that are the optimal psychological and social condition of evolution as hosts. In other words, it is fair th say that a ‘juvenile language (slang) culture’ has been created in result of juveniles reacting to their self-effort for the evolution of meme. A more environmental rather than institutional regulation, in other words, a pan-social efforts to contain the spreading of slang from the assimilation stage is needed, as much as the creating of a wholesome media cultural environment. Furthermore, a continuous guidance for the language is needed from a paternalistic perspective in consideration of the characteristical language psychology of adolescent development. Only, the discussion of a scientific basis and application suitability of the meme phenomenon remains an assignment.