Knowledge Machines - Language and Information in a Technological Society

List of contents

General Editor's Preface
1. Introduction
2. People communicating
3. The computer at work
4. The computer as phone message service
5. The computer as communication site
6. The computer as text processor
7. The computer as knowledge broker
8. Public highway or private road? or Who is in charge?
Glossary
References
Index

About the author

Denise E. Murray

Summary

This text examines language and information technology, focusing attention on the use of the computer at work, as a phone message service, as a communication site, as a text processor and as a knowledge broker.

Product details

• Authors: Denise E. Murray, Murray Denise E.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138437623
• ISBN: 978-1-138-43762-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Language In Social Life
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics