[Lexicog] Q: Language and Technology

[Terence Fitzgerald]

Hello All,
   
  I am Terence Fitzgerald, a graduate student in Pratt Institute’s School of Information and Library Science.
   
  My academic work focuses on human-computer interaction, particularly the ways in which, as Marshall McLuhan wrote, “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”  Currently, I am examining technology’s effects on people’s relationship with language.  Specifically, I question whether technology is transforming that relationship in ways never seen before—or simply causing them to revert to existing behaviors.
   
  As part of my work I have constructed a brief questionaire for lexicographers and linguists.  The responses I compile will be used to inform future projects.  If you are willing to answer the questionnaire, please reply to me off list at it_all_fitz at yahoo.com.
   
  Sincerely,
Terence

		
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