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Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Aaaargh! I've been a-slackin' with the blog thing again, eh? Well, I have a bit of an excuse . . . housepainting. Yep. We have just about finished up painting our house.
I also received Critical Literacy in Action (Ira Shor and Caroline Pari)and picked up Language and the Internet (David Crystal) from the library. The first is for a book chapter I hope to get done over the summer and the second is more specifically directed toward this project. In that spirit, I should mention that my quick glance at Language and the Internet seems to indicate that Crystal is arguing that the languae of the internet, what he calls "Netspeak," is not a "dumbing down" of language nor is it a threat to the development of lanaguage that some claim it is. Rather, it's a new dialectic (?) deserving of study and understanding if we are to understand the role of lanague in general. Humph! Nothing too new there, eh? I know I've heard the term "Netspeak" before I opened this book, and a quick type of the term into Google confirms that it was in use well before the 2001 publication date of the Crystal book. Anyway, I trust the book will have provide some insight.
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I also received Critical Literacy in Action (Ira Shor and Caroline Pari)and picked up Language and the Internet (David Crystal) from the library. The first is for a book chapter I hope to get done over the summer and the second is more specifically directed toward this project. In that spirit, I should mention that my quick glance at Language and the Internet seems to indicate that Crystal is arguing that the languae of the internet, what he calls "Netspeak," is not a "dumbing down" of language nor is it a threat to the development of lanaguage that some claim it is. Rather, it's a new dialectic (?) deserving of study and understanding if we are to understand the role of lanague in general. Humph! Nothing too new there, eh? I know I've heard the term "Netspeak" before I opened this book, and a quick type of the term into Google confirms that it was in use well before the 2001 publication date of the Crystal book. Anyway, I trust the book will have provide some insight.
