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ISBN-10 :  1472578365 

ISBN-13 : 9781472578365

Author:  James Pfrehm 

Since the earliest days of our species, technology and language have evolved in parallel. This book examines the processes and products of this age-old relationship: a phenomenon we’re calling technolingualism — the mutually influential relationship between language and technology. One the one hand, as humans advance technology to master, control, and change the world around us, our language adapts. More sophisticated social-cultural practices give rise to new patterns of linguistic communication. Language changes in its vocabulary, structures, social conventions, and ideologies. Conversely-and this side of the story has been widely overlooked-the unique features of human language can influence a technology’s physical forms and technical processes. Technolingualism explores the fascinating ways, past and present, by which language and technology have informed each other’s development. The book reveals important corollaries about the universal nature of language and, most importantly, what it means to be human. From our first babbling noises to the ends of our lives, we are innately attuned to the technologies around us, and our language reflects this. We are, all of us, technolinguals.

Technolingualism the mind and the machine 1st table of contents:

1 Textualization of Language: Writing
A Technology for Forgetting, or an Argument between Two Men in Tunics
Writing as Technology
What Is Writing?
How Writing Came About: A (Very) Short Primer
How Language Informed Writing
Language informed writing through its inherent discreteness
Language Informed Writing through Its Articulatory Features
How Writing Influences Language
Writing Influences Languages through Ideologies
Writing Influences Language through Lexical Enlargement
Writing Influences Language through Syntactic Complexity
Writing Influences Language through Etymologized Pronunciation
Writing Influences Language through Hypercorrection
Writing Influences Language through Internationalization
Writing Influences Language throug Preservation
The Textualization of Language and Technolingualism
First Interlude How Writing Doesn’t Affect Language
Writing Doesn’t Make Language “Better”
Writing Doesn’t Affect Grammar Systems
Don’t Believe Everything You Read about Writing and Language
2 Mechanization of Language: The Printing Press and the Typewriter
Mechanical Thoughts, or How a Nearly Blind Philosopher Explained His New Writing Style to His Publis
Part 1: The Printing Press
Writing Systems: How Language Informed the Technology of Printing
Standards, Literacy, and the Written Word as Property: How the Printing Press Affected Language
Standardization
Upward Trends: Literacy and Metalinguistic Awareness
The Written Word: From Communal Resource to Individual Property
Part 2: The Typewriter
Writing Systems and Letter Patterns: How Language Shaped the Typewriter
Mechanized Thoughts, the Spoken Text Effect, Language Ideologies, and Writing Rapidity: How the Type
Nietzsche’s Mechanized Thoughts and James’s Mechanical Mind
Dictating to the Machine: The Spoken Text Effect
Ideologies and Etiquette: The Social Aspects of Typewritten Language
Rapid Writing, Typewriter Style
The Mechanization of Language as an Example of Technolingualism
3 Abstraction of Language: The Telegraph and Telephone
How a Dead Man’s Ear Inspired the Telephone
Sticking to Our Technolingual Guns
Part 1: The Telegraph
Letter Frequencies and Telegraphic Code: How Language Shaped Telegraph Technology
Of Morse Speak, Jargon, Journalistic Style, and a New Conceptualization of “Communication”: The
Morse Speak
Morse Jargon
A New Journalistic Style
New Ideas about Language and Communication
Part 2: The Telephone
Phonetic Inspirations, or How the Articulatory, Physical, and Auditory Properties of Speech Shaped t
Of “Faceless” Conversation and Telephonic Etiquette: The Telephone’s Effects on Language
When Conversation Goes Faceless: New Linguistic Structures and Discourse Strategies
Of Ad Campaigns and Etiquette Guides: Telephonically Inspired Language Ideologies
The Abstraction of Language and Technolingualism
4 Digitization of Language: The Computer
The Many Faces of Email, or Professor Ferraro’s Inbox Irritants
Of Writing Systems and Formal Grammar Theory: How Language Shaped Computer Technology
The Symbol Is King, or How Writing Systems Informed Software and Hardware
Of Formal Language Theory and Computer Programming, or How Computer Science Benefitted from an Obscu
Computer Technology’s Effects on Language
Linguistic Encounters of a “Third Kind”? The Classification Quandary of CMC
Behold: The Speech-Writing Continuum
The Incredible Expanding Linguistic Repertoire: The Language of Email
Beyond English: CMC’s Effects on Other Languages
The How-tos of Email: Language Ideologies and Prescriptive Guides
Where No Linguist Has Gone Before, or How the Internet has Revolutionized Our Knowledge Base of Lang
Piles and Piles of Language: Linguistic Corpora
A Newcomer to the Field: Internet Linguistics
Wordnik: A Case Study
The Digitization of Language and Technolingualism
Second Interlude Comparing Linguists’ and Nonlinguists’ Takes on CMC’s Effect on Language:
Linguists’ Take
Nonlinguists’ Take
Back to the Linguists’ Take
5 Mobilization of Language: The Cell Phone
“Stupid Autocorrect,” or Life, Text-Message Style
Sounds, Spectrograms, and Acoustic Modeling: How Language Shaped Cell Phone Technology
Of Acoustic Features and Spectrograms: Speech Models for Computers
No Sounds on This Runway, or Acoustic Modeling
Variation: The Mother of Innovation
The Cell Phone’s Influence on (Written) Language
A “Coded Language in Its Own Right”: Linguistic Structures of Textspeak
A Variety for All Seasons: Textspeak’s Linguistic Versatility
From c u l8r:) to See You Later ., or How Textspeak Has Changed Even within Its Short Lifetime
The Dos and Don’ts of Textspeak: Language Ideologies of Text Messaging
The Mobilization of Language and Technolingualism
6 Regeneration of Language: The Cochlear Implant
Between Silence and Sound, or Triumphs and Trials of Cochlear Implantation
The Amazing, Pea-Sized Boney Spiral, or How Our Ear Processes Sound
Of Cochlear Mechanics, or How Language Shaped the Cochlear Implant
Georg von Békésy: Game-Changer in Cochlear Mechanics
Rediscovering the Cochlea, the Great Acoustic Spectrum Analyzer
Tonotopicity and Cochlear Implants
Welcome to the World of “Hearies”:36 How the Cochlear Implant Has Shaped Language and Identity
Part 1: Patient Outcomes
Part 2: Identity and Ideologies
Defining Identity
Sign Languages Are Bona Fide
Connecting Sign Language, Ideologies, and Identity
The Regeneration of Language and Technolingualism
Conclusions, or What We’ve Learned through Exploring the Relationship between Language and Tech

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