Abstract：With the rapid development of information technology and wide access to internet, internet language has attracted much academic attention in the past two decades. The internet language community is a new organisational form constructed by Internet language in the era of mobile Internet. This study provides an overview of the communization of internet language and focuses on its forms, mechanisms and influences. The communization of internet language is reflected in two aspects: the construction of internet language community and the community-wide spread of internet language. The internet language communities can be divided into four categories: interest community, relation community, fantasy community, and transaction community. There are four mechanisms for the formation and development of the communization of internet language: symbol mechanism, media mechanism, relation mechanism, and communication mechanism. The communization of internet language has both positive and negative influences. The positive effects include its focus on and criticism of society, expression of one’s feelings and adjustment of one’s mentality. The negative effects include the devaluation of language, creation of barriers to one’s social communication, narrowing of one’s interests, and formation of one’s over-sensitivity. This study argues that investigating the development of internet language from the perspective of communization can expand and deepen the research on internet language.
