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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: neutral

Author: Edward Sapir

Tags: culture linguistics

Description: A look at culture through the eyes of Sapir - via linguistics, psychology and cultural anthropology.A look at culture through the eyes of Sapir - via linguistics, psychology and cultural anthropology. A selection of essays originally published in 1949. Interesting in terms of his view of language: "Language is a cultural or social product and must be understood as such."...

2005-10-30

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Type: scientific

Status: neutral

Author: John Lyons

Tags: linguistics modality modelling semantics pragmatics

Description: A review of the meaning - conditional semantics, linguistics and the relationship of semanticsA review of the meaning - conditional semantics, linguistics and the relationship of semantics to pragmatics. Explores the concept of langauge as an 'interlocking system' in which each linguistic unit is dependent on the others not merely on one but on a number of levels. [Interesting in terms of Lotman and in terms of multimodality in general terms]....

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

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