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 steps of a market cross 4.2 “On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.” 7.1 Prize winnersina typewriting speed contest 8.1 Social uses ofthe telephone inrural America P r e f a c e One snowyafternoonin January F i g u r e s ...
... the steps of a market cross 4.2 “On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.” 7.1 Prize winnersina typewriting speed contest 8.1 Social uses ofthe telephone inrural America P r e f a c e One snowyafternoonin January F i g u r e s ...
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... ofthe Soviet Union, it was againback toRoman. 3 The English language has essentiallybeen written using the Roman ... of the Alps, when sometime between the first centuries AD, the BCand Etruscan scriptbecame the basisfor a runic alphabet ...
... ofthe Soviet Union, it was againback toRoman. 3 The English language has essentiallybeen written using the Roman ... of the Alps, when sometime between the first centuries AD, the BCand Etruscan scriptbecame the basisfor a runic alphabet ...
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... ofthe Englishscriptwas hastened bythe development ofprinting in the fifteenthcentury. When William Caxton began ... of the true cross—gains its meaning through social convention. Just so, writing can serve a myriadof functions ...
... ofthe Englishscriptwas hastened bythe development ofprinting in the fifteenthcentury. When William Caxton began ... of the true cross—gains its meaning through social convention. Just so, writing can serve a myriadof functions ...
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... of the Americanlinguistic tradition fromthe1920s up throughthe mid1960s. In theclassic 1933edition of hisbook Language ... ofthe timeturned to written textsnot because they wereinterestedin the written languageof previous generations but ...
... of the Americanlinguistic tradition fromthe1920s up throughthe mid1960s. In theclassic 1933edition of hisbook Language ... ofthe timeturned to written textsnot because they wereinterestedin the written languageof previous generations but ...
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... of the English written word, we can't simply. balancing act between competingrecording functionsof the written word ... ofthe twentieth century,anew twistwas added,as writing increasingly came to represent informal speech. This time ...
... of the English written word, we can't simply. balancing act between competingrecording functionsof the written word ... ofthe twentieth century,anew twistwas added,as writing increasingly came to represent informal speech. This time ...
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