Technolingualism : The Mind and the Machine.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustration -- Preface, or What This Book Is and Who It's for -- 1 Textualization of Language: Writing -- A Technology for Forgetting, or an Argument between Two Men in Tunics -- Writing as Technology -- What Is Writing? -- How Writing Came About: A (Very) Short Primer -- How Language Informed Writing -- Language informed writing through its inherent discreteness -- Language Informed Writing through Its Articulatory Features -- How Writing Influences Language -- Writing Influences Languages through Ideologies -- Writing Influences Language through Lexical Enlargement -- Writing Influences Language through Syntactic Complexity -- Writing Influences Language through Etymologized Pronunciation -- Writing Influences Language through Hypercorrection -- Writing Influences Language through Internationalization -- Writing Influences Language throug Preservation -- The Textualization of Language and Technolingualism -- First Interlude How Writing Doesn't Affect Language -- Writing Doesn't Make Language "Better" -- Writing Doesn't Affect Grammar Systems -- Don't Believe Everything You Read about Writing and Language -- 2 Mechanization of Language: The Printing Press and the Typewriter -- Mechanical Thoughts, or How a Nearly Blind Philosopher Explained His New Writing Style to His Publisher -- Part 1: The Printing Press -- Writing Systems: How Language Informed the Technology of Printing -- Standards, Literacy, and the Written Word as Property: How the Printing Press Affected Language -- Standardization -- Upward Trends: Literacy and Metalinguistic Awareness -- The Written Word: From Communal Resource to Individual Property -- Part 2: The Typewriter -- Writing Systems and Letter Patterns: How Language Shaped the Typewriter.

Mechanized Thoughts, the Spoken Text Effect, Language Ideologies, and Writing Rapidity: How the Typewriter Impacted Language -- Nietzsche's Mechanized Thoughts and James's Mechanical Mind -- Dictating to the Machine: The Spoken Text Effect -- Ideologies and Etiquette: The Social Aspects of Typewritten Language -- Rapid Writing, Typewriter Style -- The Mechanization of Language as an Example of Technolingualism -- 3 Abstraction of Language: The Telegraph and Telephone -- How a Dead Man's Ear Inspired the Telephone -- Sticking to Our Technolingual Guns -- Part 1: The Telegraph -- Letter Frequencies and Telegraphic Code: How Language Shaped Telegraph Technology -- Of Morse Speak, Jargon, Journalistic Style, and a New Conceptualization of "Communication": The Telegraph's Effects on Language -- Morse Speak -- Morse Jargon -- A New Journalistic Style -- New Ideas about Language and Communication -- Part 2: The Telephone -- Phonetic Inspirations, or How the Articulatory, Physical, and Auditory Properties of Speech Shaped the Telephone -- Of "Faceless" Conversation and Telephonic Etiquette: The Telephone's Effects on Language -- When Conversation Goes Faceless: New Linguistic Structures and Discourse Strategies -- Of Ad Campaigns and Etiquette Guides: Telephonically Inspired Language Ideologies -- The Abstraction of Language and Technolingualism -- 4 Digitization of Language: The Computer -- The Many Faces of Email, or Professor Ferraro's Inbox Irritants -- Of Writing Systems and Formal Grammar Theory: How Language Shaped Computer Technology -- The Symbol Is King, or How Writing Systems Informed Software and Hardware -- Of Formal Language Theory and Computer Programming, or How Computer Science Benefitted from an Obscure Subfield of Linguistics -- Computer Technology's Effects on Language.

Linguistic Encounters of a "Third Kind"? The Classification Quandary of CMC -- Behold: The Speech-Writing Continuum -- The Incredible Expanding Linguistic Repertoire: The Language of Email -- Beyond English: CMC's Effects on Other Languages -- The How-tos of Email: Language Ideologies and Prescriptive Guides -- Where No Linguist Has Gone Before, or How the Internet has Revolutionized Our Knowledge Base of Language -- Piles and Piles of Language: Linguistic Corpora -- A Newcomer to the Field: Internet Linguistics -- Wordnik: A Case Study -- The Digitization of Language and Technolingualism -- Second Interlude Comparing Linguists' and Nonlinguists' Takes on CMC's Effect on Language: -- Linguists' Take -- Nonlinguists' Take -- Back to the Linguists' Take -- 5 Mobilization of Language: The Cell Phone -- "Stupid Autocorrect," or Life, Text-Message Style -- Sounds, Spectrograms, and Acoustic Modeling: How Language Shaped Cell Phone Technology -- Of Acoustic Features and Spectrograms: Speech Models for Computers -- No Sounds on This Runway, or Acoustic Modeling -- Variation: The Mother of Innovation -- The Cell Phone's Influence on (Written) Language -- A "Coded Language in Its Own Right": Linguistic Structures of Textspeak -- A Variety for All Seasons: Textspeak's Linguistic Versatility -- From c u l8r:) to See You Later ., or How Textspeak Has Changed Even within Its Short Lifetime -- The Dos and Don'ts of Textspeak: Language Ideologies of Text Messaging -- The Mobilization of Language and Technolingualism -- 6 Regeneration of Language: The Cochlear Implant -- Between Silence and Sound, or Triumphs and Trials of Cochlear Implantation -- The Amazing, Pea-Sized Boney Spiral, or How Our Ear Processes Sound -- Of Cochlear Mechanics, or How Language Shaped the Cochlear Implant -- Georg von Békésy: Game-Changer in Cochlear Mechanics.

Rediscovering the Cochlea, the Great Acoustic Spectrum Analyzer -- Tonotopicity and Cochlear Implants -- Welcome to the World of "Hearies":36 How the Cochlear Implant Has Shaped Language and Identity -- Part 1: Patient Outcomes -- Part 2: Identity and Ideologies -- Defining Identity -- Sign Languages Are Bona Fide -- Connecting Sign Language, Ideologies, and Identity -- The Regeneration of Language and Technolingualism -- Conclusions, or What We've Learned through Exploring the Relationship between Language and Technology -- #5: Knowing about Language Leads to Better Technology -- #4: Technology-inspired Linguistic Paranoia Is Old News and Unfounded -- #3: There Is an Observable "Alphabet Effect" -- #2: Language Ideologies Abound -- #1: Language and Technology: The Effect Is Mutual -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- First interlude -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Second interlude -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Bibliography -- Index.

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