The Language of ICT : Information and Communication Technology

ISBN-13: 9780415222754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 128 str.

Tim Shortis

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Preface 1. What is it? The nature of new technologies and electronic text 2. Laying it out: Graphology, desktop publishing and multi-modal texts 3. Presenting it. How new technologies are presented in advertising and magazines 4. Specialising in it: Field specific language, jargon and subcultures 5. Naming it: Where do the new words come from? 6. Forming it: Word formation and new words 7. Tracking it: Tracing new words coming into language 8. Picturing it. Icons, symbols and metaphors 9. Mixing it. Mixed modes in e-mail and bulletin board messages 10. Speaking it in writing: Interactive written discourse in chat Glossary of key terms Bibliography and further references Website with sample electronic texts, language investigation projects and links

O autorze

Tim Shortis is Head of English and Communication Studies at Saint Brendan's Sixth Form College and a senior examiner for the AQA English Language A level.