Semiotics of Programming

Informationen zum Autor Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Creative Informatics at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo, Japan. Her major areas of interest are computational linguistics, natural language processing, and computational semiotics. Her previous books include Text Entry Systems: Mobility, Accessibility, Universality (co-edited with I. Scott MacKenzie) and a joint translation (with Kyo Kageura) of Troisième cours de linguistique générale (1910–1911): d'après les cahiers d'Emile Constantin by Ferdinand de Saussure. Klappentext Considers what computers can and cannot do! analysing how computer sign systems compare to humans through a concept of reflexivity. Zusammenfassung Tanaka-Ishii presents a semiotic analysis of computer programs along three axes: models of signs! kinds of signs! and systems of signs. This book considers the question of what computers can and cannot do! by analysing how computer sign systems compare to those of humans through a key concept of reflexivity. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Computer signs in programs; Part I. Models of Signs: 3. The Babylonian confusion; 4. Marriage of signifier and signified; 5. Being and doing in programs; Part II. Kinds of Signs and Content: 6. The statement x := x + 1; 7. Three kinds of content in programs; 8. An instance vs. the instance; Part III. Systems of Signs: 9. Structural humans vs. constructive computers; 10. Sign and time; 11. Reflexivity and evolution; 12. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Kumiko (University of Tokyo) Tanaka-Ishii, Tanaka-Ishii Kumiko
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521516556
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51655-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; COMPUTERS / Computer Science, COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / General, COMPUTERS / Programming / General, computer science, Computer programming / software engineering, Computer Programming / Software Development