互聯網路的迅猛發展催生了網路言語社區的形成，為網路語言的產生與演變提供了條件。前人對網路語言的研究多集中於共時層面的分析。我們通過百度搜集的語料顯示：中國大陸網路語言已由早期單純用於網路交際的特殊辭彙發展到目前具有多種社會功能的固定短語、句式、語篇模式，在語音、語形與語義方面都出現了新的特點，近期還出現了網路新成語。網路語言的發展歷程為網路言語社區奠定了基礎。我們於2013年3月對江蘇師範大學師生在人人網上用戶的調查分析驗證了網路言語社區已經形成。

The rapid development of Internet gave birth to the formation of the Internet speech community, providing the conditions for the evolution of Internet language. The scholars’study on the Internet language focused analysis on the synchronic level. The Internet language in Chinese mainland has developed from the early use of vocabulary for network communication to a variety of fixed phrases, sentences, discourse patterns with current social functions, appeared new features in phonetic, syntactic and semantic, and recently also appeared new Internet idioms. Such developing process of Internet language serves as the fundamental basis of the formation of the Internet speech community. In 2013 March, our investigation on RenRen Net users in Jiangsu normal university teachers and students also demonstrated that the Internet speech community has been formed.