Kulturowe uwarunkowania piśmienności młodzieży

The age of secondary orality, in which the oral and literate ways of thinking collide with each other, influences the communicative styles of today’s youth. One of the visible phenomena related to the language of teenagers is their progressing inability to acquire skills required to use written texts, together with the resulting cognitive and social consequences. In this article, I discuss the impact of cultural factors on the development of youth literacy. My analyses are based on observations of the linguistic behaviour of junior high school students. They show that young people are firmly anchored in the current communicative communities immersed in the digital world.