Knowledge Machines - Language and Information in a Technological Society

Provides a wide-ranging survey of the sociolinguistic issues raised by the impact of information technology. The author demonstrates how and in which ways the new technologies both affect human communication and are in turn affected by the way people communicate using the technologies.

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, Denise E. Murray
• Publisher: Routledge
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.08.1995
• EAN: 9780582071315
• ISBN: 978-0-582-07131-5
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 281 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics