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Language proficiency emerges not solely as mastery of discrete
skills, but also through one's ability to express ideas fully in a
variety of cultural contexts. This innovative French-language
textbook employs a holistic approach that integrates listening,
reading, writing, and conversation-placing communication at the
heart of the learning experience. It provides intermediate-level
students with the interpretive tools necessary for literary and
cultural studies. There are interactions with a variety of texts
and media, including short stories, poems, essays, images, and
podcasts.
Since the earliest days of our species, technology and language
have evolved in parallel. This book examines the processes and
products of this age-old relationship: a phenomenon we're calling
technolingualism -- the mutually influential relationship between
language and technology. One the one hand, as humans advance
technology to master, control, and change the world around us, our
language adapts. More sophisticated social-cultural practices give
rise to new patterns of linguistic communication. Language changes
in its vocabulary, structures, social conventions, and ideologies.
Conversely-and this side of the story has been widely
overlooked-the unique features of human language can influence a
technology's physical forms and technical processes.
Technolingualism explores the fascinating ways, past and present,
by which language and technology have informed each other's
development. The book reveals important corollaries about the
universal nature of language and, most importantly, what it means
to be human. From our first babbling noises to the ends of our
lives, we are innately attuned to the technologies around us, and
our language reflects this. We are, all of us, technolinguals.
Since the earliest days of our species, technology and language
have evolved in parallel. This book examines the processes and
products of this age-old relationship: a phenomenon we're calling
technolingualism -- the mutually influential relationship between
language and technology. One the one hand, as humans advance
technology to master, control, and change the world around us, our
language adapts. More sophisticated social-cultural practices give
rise to new patterns of linguistic communication. Language changes
in its vocabulary, structures, social conventions, and ideologies.
Conversely-and this side of the story has been widely
overlooked-the unique features of human language can influence a
technology's physical forms and technical processes.
Technolingualism explores the fascinating ways, past and present,
by which language and technology have informed each other's
development. The book reveals important corollaries about the
universal nature of language and, most importantly, what it means
to be human. From our first babbling noises to the ends of our
lives, we are innately attuned to the technologies around us, and
our language reflects this. We are, all of us, technolinguals.
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