Language and Technology Flashcards
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Timeline of language and technology
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- pictographic hieroglyphs (Egypt)
- Mesopotamia
- Caxton’s printing press
- Johnson’s dictionary
- telephone
- fax
- pagers
- textese
- emoticons
- emojis
-world wide web
2
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Sapir- Whorf
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- determinism, language dictates how we think (world shaped by words)
3
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opposing view
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- reflectionism, language mirrors reality
4
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Jean Aitchison
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- Prescriptive metaphors
5
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Unpredictability
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-difficult to predict long- term future of language given all the unforeseeable factors ( social, political, economic, religious) that could affect its development
6
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Electronically mediated communication
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- world wide web
- opens up more language varieties
- not exactly like writing, not entirely like speaking, different medium ( Crystal)
7
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Textese
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- proper noun an abbreviated form of language used in texting, messaging, chatrooms
8
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Features of textese
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- initialisms
- morphology
- emoji’s
- omission
- slanguage
9
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Eric Nakagawa 2002
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- LOL became well known because of LOLCATS and LOLSPEAK
- non stnadard grammar (I wants, I are, I eated)
- phonetic misspellings (nuthing, colloquial)
10
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Ameriolation
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made better ‘nice’ use to mean ‘ignorant’
11
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prejoration
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made worse ‘cunning’ use to mean ‘knowledgable’
12
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semantic reclamation
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taking language that has negative connotations and trying to overturn them by using language in new ways
13
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neologism
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newly coined word or expression e.g. carbicide
14
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borrowing
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loan words e.g. chick noir
15
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blending
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blending two words together e.g. smog
