LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGY

LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGY

1. AO2 THEORY

   • Marshall Mcluhan
     • Technology determines the ways language is used and developed.
   • Lucy Ward 2004
     • Children have the ability to code switch (switch between standard english and text speech).
     • Abbreviations could help children learn to divide syllables.
   • John Humphrys 2007
     • Hyphens shoudlnt be taken out when texting and the way we are communicating is always changing.
     • Standard english online has declined over time, such as emails becoming less formal
     • Emojis are eliminating the use of colons, brackets and dashes
   • Herring 2007
     • "Greater persistence of digital english over speech heightens users awareness of the language they use and this may encourage language play
   • David Crystal 2008
     • Children texting can help improve their spelling and writing
     • Generations have always experimented with language and technology has forced us to adapt the language
     • Being informal online is not only done by younger people, all ages to do it.

2. AO1 Terminology

   • Vowel Omission - Leaving out vowel sounds (pls, ppl, gd)
   • Homophonic representation - The uses of single letter and numbers to represent words based on a similarity in sound (l8r, m8)
   • Phonetic spelling - A spelling that represents the sound of a word (luv, cos, wot)
   • Initialism - an abbreviation that uses the first letter or a group of words (omg, lmao)
   • Acronymy - an abbreviation that uses the first letter in a group of words that is pronounced as a single word (lol)
   • Variant spelling - Deliberate non standard spelling for effect (cuz, nuff, gotta)
   • Affordances of technology - Advantages
   • Constraint of technology - Limitations
   • Anchored relationship - When people have a relationship offline with each other
   • Infographic - an image that communicates information or an animation (emojis, pictures)
   • Asynchronous discourse - discourse in which there are delays between turns that participants take
   • Synchronous discourse - discourse that takes place in real time,frequent.