Since Language Situation in China first released the Internet Language Status Report in 2006, the research on China’s domestic Internet language has gone through a new decade. This article takes the relevant reports presented in Language Situation in China as a starting point, combines it with statistical data from various documentations, and objectively presents the basic circumstances of the Internet language studies in this decade. Thousands of studies indicate that the Chinese domestic Internet language studies closely followed and traced the occurrence and the developments of the Internet language, explored the communication system of the Internet language phenomenon and its impact on social life, and provided defi nitive academic support for the society to have an accurate understanding of the Internet language phenomenon. The Internet language studies is moving toward rationality and maturity.
