35.89, Books: Why Writing Still Matters: Merchant (2023)

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-35-89. Tue Jan 09 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.89, Books: Why Writing Still Matters: Merchant (2023)

Moderators: Malgorzata E. Cavar, Francis Tyers (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Managing Editor: Justin Fuller
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Steven Franks, Everett Green, Daniel Swanson, Maria Lucero Guillen Puon, Zackary Leech, Lynzie Coburn, Natasha Singh, Erin Steitz
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Justin Fuller <justin at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: 08-Dec-2023
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Why Writing Still Matters: Merchant (2023)


Title: Why Writing Still Matters
Subtitle: Written Communication in Changing Times
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://cambridge.org/9781009268684

author: Guy Merchant
Abstract:

Writing surrounds us, it informs us, it guides us, and it controls us.
The power and complexity of this exceptional human invention is a
story of change. However, in today's digital world, technology has
drastically altered how and where we write, what we write about, and
what writing looks like. This fascinating book presents a compelling
argument for the vital importance of writing, and considers where its
future may lie. Richly illustrated with examples of writing practices
old and new, it explores the significant changes in writing that have
occurred in our lifetime, and highlights how technology has challenged
some of our most deeply held views about human communication. Through
a careful examination of how writing works, it explores how it can be
considered as a technology, inviting us to think again about this
visual language that we so often take for granted. Writing matters –
now, more than ever before.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng)



------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Please consider donating to the Linguist List https://give.myiu.org/iu-bloomington/I320011968.html


LINGUIST List is supported by the following publishers:

Cambridge University Press http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics

Wiley http://www.wiley.com


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-35-89
----------------------------------------------------------