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Created by Brett Oppegaard for Washington State University's DTC 375 class, spring 2009. More on language functions and remediation. How do we use langauge?. To communicate ideas, exchange facts and opinions … yes, and how else?. Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language.
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Created by Brett Oppegaard for Washington State University's DTC 375 class, spring 2009 More on language functions and remediation
How do we use langauge? • To communicate ideas, exchange facts and opinions … yes, and how else? Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
How do we use langauge? • Emotional expressionOops! Ow! Darn it! Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
How do we use langauge? • Social interactionGood morning, lovely dayPleased to meet youBless you! … Thank you! Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
How do we use langauge? • As rhythmic soundShirley Oneple, Shirley Twople … Shirley TenpleI like coffee, I like tea … Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
How do we use langauge? • As graphical representations Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language / Howdesign.com / tkhere.blogspot.com
How do we use langauge? • To try to control reality‘I baptize you …’I name this ship ‘Titanic’ Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
How do we use langauge? • Recording the factsGenealogy CensusLaw casesImpossible to predict how it will be used in the future (when it’s ‘communicated’) Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
How do we use langauge? • Instrument of thought32 plus 19 equals 51 So if I put this nail here …Rough draft, gets thoughts flowing Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
How do we use langauge? • Expression of identityGo Cougs!Four more years! Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
Terms to know and use • Remediation – the process by which computer graphics, virtual reality and the World Wide Web define themselves by borrowing from and refashioning media such as painting, photography, television and film. Source: Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin’s “Remediation: Understanding New Media.”
Terms to know and use • Immediacy – is the perfection, or erasure, of the gap between the signifier and the signified, such that a representation is perceived to be the thing itself. As Burke describes ‘naive verbal realism’ as a symbol being perceived as a window into the real, immediacy is a ‘style of visual representation whose goal is to make the viewer forget the presence of the medium,’ canvas, screen, etc. Source: Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin’s “Remediation: Understanding New Media.”
Terms to know and use • Hypermediacy – In the opposite way, this is a ‘style of visual representation whose goal is to remind the viewer of the medium.’ Think opaque hypermediacy versus transparent immediacy Source: Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin’s “Remediation: Understanding New Media.”