Changes in Communication Aspects in Trans-boundary Spaces: New Patterns of Language Contact due to Technological Advancements

This study aims to focus on the problems posed by space as a variable that affects communication and examine its impact and limitations. With recent technological advancements, modern society is experiencing borderless communication in which physical space and distance variables are gradually disappearing, creating several new forms of language contact. Telepresence and disembodiment, which appear in borderless spaces, are like double-edged swords; they have the positive side of increasing the convenience of language contact and the negative side of creating lies, errors, and distortions. Language contact in new spaces is a significant cause of recent language changes and needs to be noted as a critical issue. This study examines the concept of transboundary space, the problems of language contact and reterritorialization formed in transboundary space, and analyses the issue of the power of English as a central language that may appear in the process of using AI for machine translation. Small and medium-sized languages with weak linguistic and cultural power will likely be marginalized by larger language circles in global change centered on artificial intelligence technology. This is because current artificial intelligence is pursuing extreme efficiency, and when language becomes the target of that efficiency, less frequently used languages are vulnerable to this phenomenon and are likely to be absorbed into more frequently used languages.