Knowledge Machines Language and Information in a Technological Society
Innbundet /
2017
/ Engelsk
Product details
ISBN
9781138437623
Published
2017-07-20
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight
453 gr
Height
216 mm
Width
138 mm
Age
U, G, 05, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
216
Author
Biographical note
Denise Murray is Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University, Australia and San José State University, California, USA. She is the author of What English Language Teachers Need to Knows (Vol 3, Routledge, 2014).
Provides a wide-ranging survey of the sociolinguistic issues raised by the impact of information technology. The author demonstrates how and in which ways the new technologies both affect human communication and are in turn affected by the way people communicate using the technologies.
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This text examines language and information technology, focusing attention on the use of the computer at work, as a phone message service, as a communication site, as a text processor and as a knowledge broker.
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General Editor's Preface
1. Introduction
2. People communicating
3. The computer at work
4. The computer as phone message service
5. The computer as communication site
6. The computer as text processor
7. The computer as knowledge broker
8. Public highway or private road? or Who is in charge?
Glossary
References
Index
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Product details
ISBN
9781138437623
Published
2017-07-20
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight
453 gr
Height
216 mm
Width
138 mm
Age
U, G, 05, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
216
Author