Language, Texts, and Technology
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Language and Technology
Much of our focus throughout the rest of this class will be on how we use various technologies to write and read with. This week we ask more foundational questions about the connection between technology and language. In what ways are our abilities to use a language and our abilities to use technologies related to one […]
Language & Thought
We all know that language is important. Without some form of verbal (such as speech), gestural (such as sign), or visual (such as writing), language, our ability to communicate our observations, beliefs, and desires would be severely limited. But is that all languages are, useful tools for describing our perspectives to others; […]
Semiotics
Our first reading is chapter 2, “Signs” from Daniel Chandler’s Semiotics for Beginners. Here, Chandler introduces readers to the two men regarded as the founders of semiotics and their different accounts of how signs work.
