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The relationship between language, communication, and culture, focusing on identity as performance and the impact of mediated communication. It prompts self-reflection on personal names, forced identities, and the evolving nature of language in collaborative platforms like wikipedia and tiktok. The document raises questions about power dynamics in language control and the stability of language in the internet age, encouraging critical thinking about linguistic complexity and cultural representation. It serves as a starting point for discussions on language, identity, and the influence of technology on communication. It also includes a link to an npr article about new words added to the merriam-webster dictionary.
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Self-
reflection
Self-
reflection
A New Metaphor
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representative of the complexity of the
culture it come from
web for you
Language and Mediated
Communication
How the collaborative platforms,
such as Wikipedia, tiktok, impact
our perspectives on “language”?
Think about the following things:
Who has the power to control
language? Before internet vs.
the current internet world
Is language stable? Why and
why not?