Lionel Wee (Singapore National University of Singapore)

Automation in Communication

The Ideological Implications of Language Machines

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Produktbeschreibung

By drawing on multiple examples from healthcare, religion, service encounters and poetry, Lionel Wee presents rich insights into the use of automation in communication through a posthumanist lens.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9781032732237
• ISBN-10: 1032732237
• Artikelnr.: 70290383

Autorenporträt

Lionel Wee is a Provost's Chair Professor in the Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore. He sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, English World-Wide, Sociolinguistic Studies, Multilingual Margins and Studies in World Language Problems.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Machines Are Talking ... But Are They Actually Speaking? 2. Laying the
Groundwork: Posthumanism, Boundaries, and Assemblages 3. The Death of the
Speaker 4. A Hearer-Based Pragmatics 5. Gradations of Anthropomorphism 6.
Creativity and Heritage: Two Elephants in the Room 7. Towards Posthumanist
Organizations 8. Assemblages and the Emergence of Language from
Communication