ABC: The Alphabetization of the Popular MindVintage Books, 1989 - 187 頁 An intense examination of the effects of technology on literacy and language. The authors argue that there is a phenomenon transforming modern culture--language is becoming part of a technology of "information systems" with an emphasis on control, rather than human exchange. As a result, all language is becoming debased. |
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... speak the same language . ( We have been tempted to specu- late that the story of the Tower of Babel tells of this event . ) If alphabetic writing can be spoken of as bringing the human race into existence , it is only because this kind ...
... speak the same language . ( We have been tempted to specu- late that the story of the Tower of Babel tells of this event . ) If alphabetic writing can be spoken of as bringing the human race into existence , it is only because this kind ...
第 19 頁
... speaking ( and the language that we speak ) and thinking ( and the lan- guage in which it is clothed ) that we are no longer capable of composing aloud by improvisation . This difficulty did not ex- ist for the bard : He was composing ...
... speaking ( and the language that we speak ) and thinking ( and the lan- guage in which it is clothed ) that we are no longer capable of composing aloud by improvisation . This difficulty did not ex- ist for the bard : He was composing ...
第 112 頁
... speak we mean one particular way of thinking and speaking about language — an approach or an attitude that treats lan- guage as a system and a code . The equation between man and machine was not entirely unknown to Orwell . He knew Mary ...
... speak we mean one particular way of thinking and speaking about language — an approach or an attitude that treats lan- guage as a system and a code . The equation between man and machine was not entirely unknown to Orwell . He knew Mary ...
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