Talk, Text and Technology
Title | Talk, Text and Technology PDF eBook |
Author | Inge Kral |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2012-07-26 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1847697593 |
Talk, Text and Technology is an ethnography of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. This study traces one Indigenous group from the introduction of alphabetic literacy in the 1930s to the recent arrival of digital literacies and new media. This innovative work examines changing social, cultural and linguistic practices across the generations and addresses the implications for language and literacy socialisation.
Talk, Text and Technology
Title | Talk, Text and Technology PDF eBook |
Author | Inge Kral |
Publisher | Critical Language and Literacy |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781847697585 |
This is an ethnography of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. It traces one group from the introduction of alphabetic literacy to the arrival of digital literacies. It examines social, cultural and linguistic practices across the generations and addresses the implications for language and literacy socialisation.
Communicating in English
Title | Communicating in English PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Allington |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 435 |
Release | 2022-10-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1136445536 |
Communicating in English: Talk, Text, Technology looks at how people use spoken and written English to communicate in their everyday lives. Exploring the complex relationship between communication, technology and the English language, this book offers the reader practical insights into the analysis of speech and writing. A wide range of examples is provided, ranging from text messages and domestic quarrels to the works of Shakespeare and the words of Martin Luther King. This book takes a fresh look at established topics such as rhetoric, language acquisition, and professional communication, as well as covering exciting new fields such as everyday creativity, digital media, and the history of the book. Key theoretical concepts are introduced in an accessible manner, and the reader is given an in-depth understanding of English-language communication in its social and historical contexts. Drawing on the latest research and on the Open University’s experience of producing accessible and innovative texts, this book: • explains basic concepts and assumes no previous study of English studies, communication studies or linguistics • features a range of source material and commissioned readings to supplement chapters • includes contributions from leading experts in their fields, including Naomi Baron, Deborah Cameron, Guy Cook, Janet Holmes and Almut Koester • has a truly international scope, encompassing examples and case studies from Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia • is illustrated in full colour and includes a comprehensive index. Communicating in English: Talk, Text, Technology is essential reading for all students of English language studies or communication studies.
Talking Texts
Title | Talking Texts PDF eBook |
Author | Rosalind Horowitz |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 646 |
Release | 2017-09-25 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1351547143 |
This volume examines how oral and written language function in school learning , and how oral texts can be successfully inter-connected to the written texts that are used on a daily basis in schools. Rather than argue for the prominence of one over the other, the goal is to help the reader gain a rich understanding of how both might work together to create a new discourse that ultimately creates new knowledge. Talking Texts: Provides historical background for the study of talk and text Presents examples of children’s and adolescents’ natural conversations as analyzed by linguists Addresses talk as it interfaces with domains of knowledge taught in schools to show how talk is related to and may be influenced by the structure, language, and activities of a specific discipline. Bringing together seminal lines of research to create a cohesive picture of discourse issues germane to classrooms and other learning settings, this volume is an essential resource for researchers, graduate students, classroom teachers, and curriculum specialists across the fields of discourse studies, literacy and English education, composition studies, language development, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics.
Alone Together
Title | Alone Together PDF eBook |
Author | Sherry Turkle |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 463 |
Release | 2017-11-07 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0465093663 |
A groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner ones Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection leads to a deep solitude. MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Based on hundreds of interviews and with a new introduction taking us to the present day, Alone Together describes changing, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, and families.
Speech Technology
Title | Speech Technology PDF eBook |
Author | Fang Chen |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2010-07-01 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0387738193 |
This book gives an overview of the research and application of speech technologies in different areas. One of the special characteristics of the book is that the authors take a broad view of the multiple research areas and take the multidisciplinary approach to the topics. One of the goals in this book is to emphasize the application. User experience, human factors and usability issues are the focus in this book.
Technology and the Historian
Title | Technology and the Historian PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Crymble |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2021-04-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0252052609 |
Charting the evolution of practicing digital history Historians have seen their field transformed by the digital age. Research agendas, teaching and learning, scholarly communication, the nature of the archive—all have undergone a sea change that in and of itself constitutes a fascinating digital history. Yet technology's role in the field's development remains a glaring blind spot among digital scholars. Adam Crymble mines private and web archives, social media, and oral histories to show how technology and historians have come together. Using case studies, Crymble merges histories and philosophies of the field, separating issues relevant to historians from activities in the broader digital humanities movement. Key themes include the origin myths of digital historical research; a history of mass digitization of sources; how technology influenced changes in the curriculum; a portrait of the self-learning system that trains historians and the problems with that system; how blogs became a part of outreach and academic writing; and a roadmap for the continuing study of history in the digital era.