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Language Of Ict
Paperback Edition: 1/2000
This satellite textbook in the Routledge "Intertext" series offers students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on new communication technologies. Written in a clear style, it combines practical activities with texts, followed by commentaries. It can be used individually or in conjunction with the
series core textbook, "Working with Texts: A Core Book for Language Analysis." Aimed at A-Level and beginning undergraduate students, this work: explores the nature of the electronic word and presents the new types of text in which it is found; examines the impact of the rapid technological change we are living through; analyzes different texts, including e-mail and answerphone messages, webpages, faxes, computer games and articles about IT; provides detailed guidance on downloading material from the web, gives URLs to visit, and includes a dedicated webpage; and includes a comprehensive glossary of terms.
Contents:
What is it? the nature of new technologies and electronic text; laying it out - Graphology, desktop publishing and multi-modal texts; presenting it - how new technologies are presented in advertising and magazines; specialising in it - field specific language, jargon and subcultures; naming it - where do the new words come from?; forming it - word formation and new words; tracking it - tracing new words coming into language; picturing it - icons, symbols and metaphors; mixing it - mixed modes in e-mail and bulletin board messages; speaking it in writing - interactive written discourse in chat.
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Contents:
What is it? the nature of new technologies and electronic text; laying it out - Graphology, desktop publishing and multi-modal texts; presenting it - how new technologies are presented in advertising and magazines; specialising in it - field specific language, jargon and subcultures; naming it - where do the new words come from?; forming it - word formation and new words; tracking it - tracing new words coming into language; picturing it - icons, symbols and metaphors; mixing it - mixed modes in e-mail and bulletin board messages; speaking it in writing - interactive written discourse in chat.
Pages : 128
Publisher : Routledge
Subjects: Non-fiction, Science And Technology, Computing And IT, Computer Science