...Evaluate the idea that prescriptivists are correct when they suggest that technology is having a negative impact on language use Prescriptivism is a set of rules that govern one variety, or manner, of speaking against another. It implies a view that some forms of language are incorrect, improper or lack communicative effect. It deals with the syntax and word structures of a language and is intended to aid to the learning of that particular language. Descriptivism is the belief that description is more significant or important to teach, study and practice. It’s a non-judgmental approach to language and focuses on how it is actually spoken or written and allows that native language of people to flourish. According to David Crystal, he was a descriptivist. His theory named ‘Tide Metaphor’ suggests that language is like a tide, and is constantly changing, bringing with it a new selection of words and taking out others in a natural and progressive way. Whereas John Humphreys, who is a well known prescriptivist said ‘Unless you get into the habit of being precise you will be open to misunderstanding.’ This is a common prescriptivist view. I believe in the descriptivist point of view when looking at the impact technology has had on our language use. Text messages have evolved into something where lexis is not necessarily needed. Emoticons or emoji’s can be used without the aid of anything else to represent a feeling of one person to another. Also, regarding emails, which can use...
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...within their lives and throughout society. Previous to this course my viewpoint and attitude were based on the people of which I surround myself with, the life experiences I have encountered and the way in which we make our decisions and why. Following my studies I have found this foundation of my knowledge to be valid and rather accurate although there are numerous factors which make up our decisions and how we end up where we are, studying sociology has assisted me in becoming more aware of different factors which I may have not considered to make up a society and how in turn this has enhanced my sense of identity. In relation to individuality and where I am in society I have found there are a number of entities which define me within the social order, that being of where I have lived in the world, the people I surround myself with, the cultures I have endured and seen, the values I was taught as a child and to this day as an adult and the way in which I come to make my decisions. Attending 13 schools and living in 3 continents over 7 major cities all over the world up until the age of 16 I found this hard to deal with as a child, the older I become the more I realise how this has facilitated the way in which I live my life, I have come to realise how adaptable I am to many situations and that I am resilient to most circumstances of...
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...Parenting with Technology By DeVry University There are 6,800 known languages used in 200 different countries through out the world. 2,681 of those languages also have a writing system and the rest are just spoken. (1) All of those languages, spoken or not are tools of communication. Communication is the background of modern society and the fundamental means of being a civilized country, and how we communicate has changed dramatically over the centuries from grunting and writing on rocks to a very wide variety of methods in communication that we see today. Today, we often communicate with technology. We use email, on laptops and cell phones through wireless networks in hotspots all over our cities and communities. With cell phones, it is rare that you cannot instantly make a phone call and speak to someone immediately. Text messaging is yet another new language has been developed to communicate within in our society. Finally we use the Internet and social networking sites to keep in touch via live video, instant pictures, and so much more. Information is almost always a click away. In this multifaceted time of communication we need to learn the languages of our kids. Communication has always been the key to good parenting. Now we can use the tools of the 2000’s to be the best parents possible. The cell phone has changed communication, as we know it. Every time I missed school as a teen by 10 am the phone would ring with a call from the school office...
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...or worse, most of our kids now spend more time in the digitally constructed sandbox of video games than they do with the worms, stones, sticks and dirt that reigned during my imaginative childhood” (3 Tips for Disconnecting Kids From Over-Stimulation, Video Games, and Digital Media). This quote is a good example of how things have changed because of digital technology coming into society. It shows how kids are stuck to their computers and TV’s because all they want to do is play video games. This relates to the theme course questions, In what ways are various digital media technologies making Americans more or less social? In what ways does the utilization of different digital technologies help to sustain communities or bring...
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...Do you know those moments when your grandparents tell you “life was so much better in my days“? Or, “our youth is forgetting how to write”? I am sure you do! Just a few days ago I saw the news, that apple brought out new and more developed products. And as always my grandmother was there to give her opinion; “all this new technology destroys our grammar and language”. However, you will never guess where she read this. Exactly, ON HER IPHONE! And exactly that brought me to think about her point. How far is her statement acceptable or is she totally wrong? Well, obviously languages have changed throughout history and they are still changing today. As a matter of fact, in September 2015 the Oxford English Dictionary added hundreds of new words, phrases and senses to their online dictionary. If you just imagine how many new words must be added in a year… But, this is not the main point grandparents are going on about. Their main problem is our grammar and punctuation....
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...communication needs our church has with our community and church demographics. Summary: 1. Our community, although small, has seen growth of the Hispanic population. Until the past five years, this community has been nearly one hundred percent Caucasion. Many families in the community have lived here for generations and don't understand how to interact with people of differing backgrounds. 2. The traditional way of doing things in this community has always taken precedence. However, if we are to reach the growing minority population, we need to look outside the box. Our organization is all about reaching out and living life with people on there terms. To do this, we must change the way things have always been done in the past. 3. Small town America has changed the way it interacts with people. Just a few years ago, you had to meet with people face to face or over the telephone. Today, the internet has changed, forever, the way that we interact with the world and other cultures. Introduction: Our community is over 200 years old. We are very proud of the rich heritage of our small town. Tradition holds a great sense of priority for many of this towns citizens. However, in the past five years we have seen tremendous growth of the Hispanic population in our town and the surrounding communities. These new citizens have a very different sense of priorities and traditions. Within our church body, we believe that living our lives on mission with those in our community and...
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...& CROSS CULTURAL COMMUNICATION 2 Abstract Social media technologies are important tools in our lives. They make it possible to maintain social relationships with existing friends and family, while at the same time building new relationships. The social lives of different cultures affect how they use this technology such as the social life of those living in the United States might benefit more from using communication technologies to build new relationships, while another social life such as those living in Germany might benefit more from using communication technologies to maintaining existing relationships. The influence the technology has on these new and existing relationships affects those lives as well. The use of communication technology such as calling, texting, instant messaging and emailing more frequently with an existing social network of friends is associated with a higher sense of belongingness to a strong and supportive social network. Calling, texting and instant messaging more frequently to new social network may be associated with an increased sense of belongingness but e-mailing to a new social network is associated with a decrease in belongingness. SOCIAL MEDIA & CROSS CULTURAL COMMUNICATION 3 Social Media & Cross Cultural Communication And Its Effect on Human Behavior Thousands of years ago, humans communicated only through spoken languages. Communities were small and mobile. Gradually, people developed writing...
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...Mary Easterling Database Concepts Paper (Ch. 30 Web Technologies and DBMS) The internet or web was created in 1989, the internet grew into the powerful information exchange service that it is today. It has expanded the world at a pace that has astounded many experts in this new field. This new technology brought forth many new ideas for better, faster, easier ways to communication between the different computer formats, so the experts had get together and create a universal language that would be accepted with all computer hardware systems. Most web pages today are written in HTML, XML, JAVA, JavaScript are just a few examples. Websites now and in the past use the uniform resource locations (URL’s) to communicate inside the different browsers with the information or resources on a specific server. Without these locations, the information cannot be found or accessed, for example, to access Google.com, the browser needs to break down the information into an address to continue, and if the address is incorrect or cannot be located it will return a page not found error. Hypertext markup language (HTML) is the most common language that spans across the different platforms. This language is pretty easy to learn using the free basic instructions available on the internet, and now most high schools teach HTML to their students so they can create their own webpage. Most personal webpages today are a great example of what is called a static web page. “An HTML document that is...
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...political, sexual, geographical or a combination of factors. Members of a subculture often signal their membership through a distinctive and symbolic use of style, which includes fashions, mannerisms, and argot. I work for UPS and have worked there for over seven years. UPS is a world of its own. Every business has it's own style. UPS is in the business of linking people, cultures, and commerce, with diversity as an integral part of its global strategy. And with employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide, there's no question that diversity is part of the social fabric at UPS. Diversity is leveraging our unique experiences and contributions because they add value to our culture and contribute to the success of our company. In today’s world, we understand that diversity encompasses more than race and gender. It extends to the full scope of issues ranging from ethnicity to sexual orientation to physical ability. Inclusiveness, respect and cooperation are core values that help drive the way we do business with our customers and suppliers - and strengthen our bonds with a multi-cultural community of friends and neighbors. Employees are the key to our...
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...American Achievement Gap America. The land of the free. Home of opportunities. A place where all of this may have been accurate, but stands a test of truth today, in the 21st century. One may think that the United States is a wonderful place to live, however if one were to ask an African American single mom of two how her life is going they will find out that there are quite a few things wrong with the way our system works. Or one can simply take a look at our news and get a trifling perception of what our world looks like day to day. One reason behind, more or less, all of our complications is the achievement gap. The achievement gap according to edglossary.org “refers to any significant and persistent disparity in academic performance...
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...MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATION ACTIVITY 2 TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION Submitted to:- miss pallavi Submitted by:- sahista n baxi Technology and Communication Communication is simply the act of transferring information from one place to another. communication is the activity of conveying information through the exchange of ideas, feelings, intentions, attitudes, expectations, perceptions or commands, as by speech, gestures, writings, behaviour and possibly by other means such as electromagnetic, chemical or physical phenomena. It is the meaningful exchange of information between two or more participants. Communication requires a sender, a message, a medium and a recipient, although the receiver does not have to be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space. Communication requires that the communicating parties share an area of communicative commonality. The communication process is complete once the receiver understands the sender's message. Communication is of many types some of them are non-verbal communication, verbal communication, oral communication, written communication etc. Non-verbal communication describes the process of conveying meaning in the form of non-word messages. Verbal communication takes place through the spoken words between the...
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...THE EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY: COMPARING COMMUNICATION METHODS OF MODERN SOCIAL NETWORKS TO RURAL INDIGENOUS GROUPS [DO NOT CITE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE AUTHORS] 1 ABSTRACT “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” (Einstein 1875-1955). This quote by Albert Einstein shows the vast technology changes experienced by humanity. The early indigenous tribes and groups had developed systems of communication and networks to conduct their daily activities (ie. trade, etc) with the use of technological resources which were far inferior compared to modern day. They created social networks to communicate and share common interests during their interactions. A social network defined is a social structure that encompasses individuals and organizations who become connected through sharing of common interests, for example in friendship, beliefs, knowledge, etc. In the modern era, post 1950s, humankind had begun to see a sharp climb in technology uses to ease daily tasks and activities. They created a social structure such that much of the interaction and creation of social networks revolves around the use of technology as a resource. Technology in the modern era has begun to be viewed as a means of effective communication and function for a majority of individuals. The comparison between rural indigenous groups of the past and the modern era communication methods can be studied to see whether technology has increased level of communication. ...
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...How the evolution of mobile phone change the way people communicate? Previously, people used to communicate with some of the earliest forms of communication devices included smoke signal, morse code, and pigeons. With all these communication devices, messages probably need weeks or months to reaching its destination. With the invention of mobile phone, all you have to do these days is send a text or make a call and your message will reach its destination within minutes. THE EVOLUTION OF MOBILE PHONE Nowadays, mobile phone is no longer a want but is a need. Everyone including people from teenagers to old people has a personal cell phone of their own on their hands. You couldn’t imagine how a mobile phone looks like in the past; it is totally different from now. Improved technology has made a great change in the history of mobile phones, transforming the huge mobile phones into sleek and stylish smartphones we carry with us now. Let’s take a look at how mobile phones developed from the bulky walkie-talkie look to today’s swipe-savvy descendants. Previously, a mobile phone use to be like this. The design is huge and with a long antenna. A few years later, mobile phones became a little more defined and better looking than how they were before. Antennas were shortened and the designs modified. Only text messaging service and voice call service are included in the function of mobile phone. Besides making a call and texting a message, there is nothing else a mobile phone can do...
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...How Social Media has transformed the way People Communicate The evolutions of technology have both improved our quality of life and have made our lives easier. It has been a constant source of news, entertainment, and education for users around the world for more than twenty years. As communication and information travel faster and faster, the world seems to get smaller and smaller. This changes how the world communicates, especially with today’s obsession with social media networks. One of the biggest changes in the way that people interact, due to social media networks, is the sheer number of people that we can interact with. Because of social networks, we are now able to interact with thousands of people all over the world. Without social media, that would be impossible. Social media networks allow us the opportunity to share opinions with a far wider audience. Social media has also changed the way that we interact, mainly the way we have lost some of our social skills. Some people are completely incapable of a normal conversation or interacting with people in person because of the dependency of social media. People are more obsessed with checking their smartphone every two minutes than have a conversation with friends or family. Another big change that has occurred is that the way people converse in writing techniques. People who communicate via social media or text message are not necessarily spelling things correctly, they are speaking a new language. For example...
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...Marc Prensky Digital Natives Digital Immigrants ©2001 Marc Prensky _____________________________________________________________________________ Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants By Marc Prensky From On the Horizon (NCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, October 2001) © 2001 Marc Prensky It is amazing to me how in all the hoopla and debate these days about the decline of education in the US we ignore the most fundamental of its causes. Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. Today’s students have not just changed incrementally from those of the past, nor simply changed their slang, clothes, body adornments, or styles, as has happened between generations previously. A really big discontinuity has taken place. One might even call it a “singularity” – an event which changes things so fundamentally that there is absolutely no going back. This so-called “singularity” is the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology in the last decades of the 20th century. Today’s students – K through college – represent the first generations to grow up with this new technology. They have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age. Today’s average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention...
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