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TeLCU: A Model for Technology-Conditioned Language and Literacy Change

TeLCU: A Model for Technology-Conditioned Language and Literacy Change
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Author(s): Adams B. Bodomo (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 24
Source title: Computer-Mediated Communication for Linguistics and Literacy: Technology and Natural Language Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Adams B. Bodomo (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-868-0.ch004

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Abstract

In line with our theme of investigating the relationship between new communications technology and the way we process (i.e. speak, read, and write) natural language, in chapter 2 I outlined different views about language forms and language use in the context of new technologies, and in chapter 3, I looked at new ways of reading and accessing reading materials with the advent of new computer-mediated communication platforms that promote the production of e-materials. We found in chapter 2 that there were two main views about the relationship between CMC technology and language. One was that CMC technologies cannot actually change language and that whatever transformations we observe are part of a larger social transformation; indeed that technology itself is part of social transformation. The second view was that technology actually has a causal effect on language structures and use, leading to the idea that new forms of language and new ways of using and processing language arise from the introduction of new communications technologies.

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