Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's HeadingRoutledge, 2002 M06 1 - 336 pages In Alphabet to Email Naomi Baron takes us on a fascinating and often entertaining journey through the history of the English language, showing how technology - especially email - is gradually stripping language of its formality. Drawing together strands of thinking about writing, speech, pedagogy, technology, and globalization, Naomi Baron explores the ever-changing relationship between speech and writing and considers the implications of current language trends on the future of written English. Alphabet to Email will appeal to anyone who is curious about how the English language has changed over the centuries and where it might be going. |
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... The scriptin which alanguage is written often bears political baggage.Forexample, when Ataturk assumed power over what became modern Turkey, he replaced theuseof Arabicscript forwriting Turkishwith the Roman script. The history ofscripts in ...
... The scriptin which alanguage is written often bears political baggage.Forexample, when Ataturk assumed power over what became modern Turkey, he replaced theuseof Arabicscript forwriting Turkishwith the Roman script. The history ofscripts in ...
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... the case ofplaywrights. Actorsusescripts tofacilitate learning their lines—which are delivered aloud.For studentsof modernliterature, plays are textsto be contemplated (typically in silence) by individual readers. Thehistoryofwriting inthe ...
... the case ofplaywrights. Actorsusescripts tofacilitate learning their lines—which are delivered aloud.For studentsof modernliterature, plays are textsto be contemplated (typically in silence) by individual readers. Thehistoryofwriting inthe ...
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... the English written word, we can't simply lookatwriting inavacuum.Instead, we need togetasense ofhow writing relates toits alterego, speech. Comingto grips withthis relationship, atleast in broad stroke, is the goalof the rest of this ...
... the English written word, we can't simply lookatwriting inavacuum.Instead, we need togetasense ofhow writing relates toits alterego, speech. Comingto grips withthis relationship, atleast in broad stroke, is the goalof the rest of this ...
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... To wit: the scumball we encountered in the Preface,whobroke upwith his girlfriend via emailrather than callingon the phone, writinga realletter, or talking with herfacetoface. Other times, weuse email to convey messages as neutrallyas ...
... To wit: the scumball we encountered in the Preface,whobroke upwith his girlfriend via emailrather than callingon the phone, writinga realletter, or talking with herfacetoface. Other times, weuse email to convey messages as neutrallyas ...
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... originating outside the self, typically in the speech of thegods: they “hadto” act ratherthan“decide to”act. The Classical Greeks cameto see speech and action as originating in the mindand progressively under the control of the self. It is ...
... originating outside the self, typically in the speech of thegods: they “hadto” act ratherthan“decide to”act. The Classical Greeks cameto see speech and action as originating in the mindand progressively under the control of the self. It is ...
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