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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: Noam Chomsky

Tags: linguistics cognition

Description: Interesting study by Chomsky in which he argues that "there is no coherent notion of 'language'Interesting study by Chomsky in which he argues that "there is no coherent notion of 'language' external to the human mind, and that the study of language should take as its focus the mental construct which constitutes our knowledge of language."...

2005-10-30

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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: 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: Umberto Eco

Tags: linguistics semiotics communication semiology semantics

Description: An excellent overview of the field of semiotics, its definitions, its areas of focus, its limits,An excellent overview of the field of semiotics, its definitions, its areas of focus, its limits, etc. Useful for any student of semiotics. I'm looking forward to this one....

2005-10-30

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Type: educational

Status: neutral

Authors: Ken Hirschkop David Shepherd

Tags: culture discourse dialogism

Description: An overview of Bakhtin studies in the form of collected essays, with a particular focus onAn overview of Bakhtin studies in the form of collected essays, with a particular focus on culture and dialogism. Also contains a new biographical essay on Bakhtin and the Bakhtin circle....

2005-10-30

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Type: scientific

Status: neutral

Author: Molly Abel Travis

Tags: culture space cybernetics virtuality

Description: Reading and understanding cultural texts... a wide variety. Mostly I'm interested in theReading and understanding cultural texts... a wide variety. Mostly I'm interested in the chapter on Modernism and one on Cybernetic Aesthetics, Hypertext and Virtual Public Space....

2005-10-30

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Type: educational

Status: neutral

Author: Morris Halle

Tags: semiotics

Description: A collection of papers in various languages published by the University of Michigan in 1984A collection of papers in various languages published by the University of Michigan in 1984 as a tribute to the work of Yuri Lotman (founder of the Tartu School of Semiotics) on his 60th birthday. (No idea, then, why they call him Georgii on the Frontispiece)....

2005-10-14