[Xmca-l] Re: Vygotsky and texting

[robsub@ariadne.org.uk]

"we, for the first time, write like we speak" - but just look at a 
transcript of an actual covnersation, and it is nothing like the way we 
speak. So - I assume - it must be mediated very differently from spoken 
speech.

Rob

On 06/09/2019 15:40, Haught, John R. wrote:
> John McWhorter has a TED talk in which he describes texting as 
> "fingered speech" claiming it is a new form of communication in which 
> we, for the first time, write like we speak. I haven't searched to see 
> what he has written on that but it might be a starting point.
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> So I am reading Vygotsky with a class. The first time I am reading his 
> work in a few years. We are starting with chapter 7 of thinking and 
> speech, thought and word because – well I wanted to and I am the 
> instructor (can’t beat the perqs). I run across something really 
> interesting that would not have had much meaning pre-Internet – well 
> meaning (or sense, I don’t know), but not as much as today. He is 
> talking about the different forms of communication and he talks about 
> how we abbreviate in verbal speech (our we move inner speech out to 
> social communication) but not really in written speech. This was 
> mostly true the first time I read it. But this time it made me think 
> of blogging and especially micro-blogging. We tend to abbreviate all 
> the time, more than in normal verbal communication, but it is written 
> communication. In class we of course discussed space limitations but 
> it seems more than that. Somebody brought up the example of 
> sub-Reddits some of which have a great deal of abbreviated 
> communication. We also got in to a big discussion of emojis. I mean 
> people use them, but really why do we have them and why do people use 
> them so easily (they were originally organic and then tech companies 
> began standardizing them. It made me wonder, is micro-blogging and 
> blogging actually a new and different form of mediated communication, 
> different from both verbal and formal written communication.  Does 
> anybody know of any work on this. I am having my students do their 
> blog assignments this week using abbreviations and emojis and memes.  
> I am really interested to see what happens.  Anybody know of any 
> research on this?  Have any thoughts? (I would do an emoji to end but 
> I am really bad at them. But I will say I was pwnd by my students in 
> class when discussing this).
>
> Michael
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