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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第 73 頁
... things of the soul . These secrets too will be revealed on the Day of Judgement . And in the next several centuries ... thing for himself , in his autobiography - though he uses the old term , memoir . It is also in America that the ...
... things of the soul . These secrets too will be revealed on the Day of Judgement . And in the next several centuries ... thing for himself , in his autobiography - though he uses the old term , memoir . It is also in America that the ...
第 85 頁
... things that are not , ' need be neither evil nor a bare technical constraint . Gods and chosen mortals can be virtuo- sos of mendacity , contrivers of elaborate untruths for the sake of the verbal craft . . . . " And " untruth " is ...
... things that are not , ' need be neither evil nor a bare technical constraint . Gods and chosen mortals can be virtuo- sos of mendacity , contrivers of elaborate untruths for the sake of the verbal craft . . . . " And " untruth " is ...
第 97 頁
... things we can believe in and act on . Gradually , as we read the Journal , we begin to realize that we are being ... thing to cre- ate civil servants , but an entirely other thing both to invest them with power and to coerce the ...
... things we can believe in and act on . Gradually , as we read the Journal , we begin to realize that we are being ... thing to cre- ate civil servants , but an entirely other thing both to invest them with power and to coerce the ...
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