Technolingualism The Mind and the Machine
Free Download James Pfrehm, "Technolingualism: The Mind and the Machine"
English | ISBN: 147257835X | 2018 | 304 pages | PDF | 37 MB
Since the earliest days of our species, technology and language have evolved in parallel. This book examines the processes and products of this age-old relationship: a phenomenon we're calling technolingualism - the mutually influential relationship between language and technology.
On the one hand, as humans advance technology to master, control, and change the world around us, our language adapts. More sophisticated social-cultural practices give rise to new patterns of linguistic communication. Language changes in its vocabulary, structures, social conventions, and ideologies. Conversely-and this side of the story has been widely overlooked-the unique features of human language can influence a technology's physical forms and technical processes.
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