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Type: educational

Status: liked

Author: David K Berlo

Tags: culture semiotics communication meaning semiosis

2006-04-06

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Type: educational

Status: neutral

Authors: Philip LeVine (Editor) Ron Scollon (Editor)

Tags: technology linguistics communication discourse multimodality

Description: The overarching theme of Discourse and Technology is cutting-edge in the field of linguistics:The overarching theme of Discourse and Technology is cutting-edge in the field of linguistics: multimodal discourse. This volume opens up a discussion among discourse analysts and others in linguistics and related fields about the two-fold impact of new communication technologies: The impact on how discourse data is collected, transcribed, and analyzed-and the impact that these technologies are having on social interaction and discourse. As inexpensive tape recorders allowed the field to move beyond text, written or printed language, to capture talk-discourse as spoken language-the information explosion (including cell phones, video recorders, Internet chat rooms, online journals, and the like) has moved those in the field to recognize that all discourse is, in various ways, "multimodal," constructed through speech and gesture, as well as through typography, layout, and the materials employed in the making of texts.
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2006-04-06

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Type: scientific

Status: to read

Authors: Steven Best Douglas Kellner

Tags: technology culture postmodernism communication

Description: Massive geopolitical shifts and dramatic developments in computerization and biotechnologyMassive geopolitical shifts and dramatic developments in computerization and biotechnology are heralding the transformation from the modern to the postmodern age. We are confronted with altered modes of work, communication, and entertainment; new postindustrial and political networks; novel approaches to warfare; genetic engineering; and even cloning. This compelling book explores the challenges to theory, politics, and human identity that we face on the threshold of the third millennium. It follows on the successor of Best and Kellner's two previous books, Postmodern Theory, acclaimed as the best critical introduction to the field - and The Postmodern Turn, which provides a powerful mapping of postmodern developments developments in the arts, politics, science, and theory. In The Postmodern Adventure, Best and Kellner analyze a broad array of literary, cultural, and political phenomena from fiction, film, science, and the Internet, to globalization and the rise of a transnational image culture. They use the best of modern and postmodern perspectives to illuminate contemporary life and to strive for a just and viable future....

2006-04-06

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Type: documentary

Status: now reading

Author: Steven Johnson

Tags: technology culture communication

2006-04-06

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Type: scientific

Status: neutral

Author: Marvin Minsky

Tags: mind space communication cognition memory meaning

Description: A fun, easy to read book (lots of pictures and broken up text) that looks at cognition, theA fun, easy to read book (lots of pictures and broken up text) that looks at cognition, the brain, theories of mind and memory, of space and meaning, perception, context and ambiguities, framing, expression, mental models, etc....

2005-10-30

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Type: scientific

Status: neutral

Author: Geoffrey Leech

Tags: linguistics communication meaning semantics

Description: Semantics presented in the light of linguistics, communication and concept-manipulation. ToSemantics presented in the light of linguistics, communication and concept-manipulation. To what extent can the study of language be used to contribute to the study of meaning? An interesting general, but quite extensive, overview of semantics. A good place to start for the beginner....

2005-10-30

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Allan Reid

Tags: culture linguistics semiotics communication cognition structuralism cybernetics poetics moscow-tartu

Description: A very interesting comparative study of the key theoretical interests of Bakhtin and LotmanA very interesting comparative study of the key theoretical interests of Bakhtin and Lotman based on a PhD Thesis. Plenty of food for thought and an extensive bibliography for Lotman scholars....

2005-10-30

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Type: scientific

Status: I recommend

Authors: Gunther Kress Robert Hodge

Tags: culture space time semiotics communication modality

Description: A kind of 'put it all in one bag' textbook of semiotics covering communication, culture,A kind of 'put it all in one bag' textbook of semiotics covering communication, culture, sociality, media texts, spatial and temporal dimensions of texts and signs....

2005-10-30

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Type: educational

Status: I recommend

Author: Sue Vice

Tags: literary theory communication discourse dialogism chronotope

Description: A helpful introduction to the key concepts of Bakhtin in an easy-to-read format. Brief overviewA helpful introduction to the key concepts of Bakhtin in an easy-to-read format. Brief overview with supporting examples of concepts like: heteroglossia, dialogism, polyphony, carnival and the chronotope. The introduction also provides a good, general overview of Bakhtin and Bakhtinian studies, including a review of authorial controversies concerning his work....

2005-10-30

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Type: scientific

Status: I recommend

Author: Ferdinand de Saussure

Tags: linguistics semiotics communication semiology discourse

Description: De Saussures seminal work on linguistics (and his embryonic notion of semiotics - his term,De Saussures seminal work on linguistics (and his embryonic notion of semiotics - his term, semiology). Put together from the lecture notes of his students after his death. This is a surprisingly readable book! Very interesting and especially so for Lotman scholars... easy now to see where those later ideas on culture came from. ...

2005-10-30