- 语言技术与社会
- - 作者：刘小侠|责编:朱房煦
  - 出版社：北京大学
  - ISBN：9787301364970
  - 出版日期：2025/08/01
  - 页数：322
- 售价：35.2

内容大纲
本书探索语言、技术与社会之间的相互关系，讨论自文字——第一项专门为语言而设计的技术——到数码时代机器翻译、网络语言等各种与语言相关的创新。以语言技术史为线，以语言技术原理为点，以语言技术发展产生的社会影响为面，通过精心的引导，将语言、技术与学生个体和社会的重要议题关联起来，讨论书写系统与语言之间的关系、读写能力对认知和科学发展的影响、印刷机在中西方社会的影响、打字机对现代化办公与性别平等的影响、电报机与计算机编码的源起、机器翻译的使用和局限性、人工智能的突破以及未来前景、网络和社交媒体对语言产生的影响等话题。教材以思想性带动语言学习，通过描述、阐释、分析和评价语言、技术与社会之间的关系，增强学生的英语综合应用能力和学习共同体构建意识，发展学生的跨文化交际能力和批判性思维能力。
作者介绍
目录
Chapter I What Is Language
  Jumping-in
  1.1  What is language
  1.2  Elements of language
    1.2.1  Phonetics
    1.2.2  Phonology
    1.2.3  Morphology
    1.2.4  Syntax
    1.2.5  Semantics
    1.2.6  Pragmatics
  Summing-up
  References
  Further reading
Chapter II How Writing Came About
  Jumping-in
  2.1  How writing originated
    2.1.1  Pictographic theory
    2.1.2  Token theory
  2.2  Logogram at the root of invented writing
  2.3  Mechanism in action: the rebus principle
    2.3.1  Sumerian cuneiform
    2.3.2  Oracle bone inscriptions
  2.4  Mechanism in action: the acrophonic principle
    2.4.1  Egyptian hieroglyph
    2.4.2  Maya script
  2.5  Extension and differentiation
  Summing-up
  References
  Further reading
Chapter III How Writing Represents Language
  Jumping-in
  3.1  Problems with a “universal” writing system
  3.2  Glottograhic: logographic vs. phonographic
  3.3  Phonographic writing systems
    3.3.1  Syllabic writing
    3.3.2  Segmental writing
  Summing-up
  References
  Further reading
Chapter IV Interaction between Language and Writing: Decipherment of Egyptian Hieroglyph
  Jumping-in
  4.1  Rosetta Stone: pattern of fusion
  4.2  The decipherment: competition and cooperation
  4.3  Methodology of the decipherment
    4.3.1  Distribution analysis for patterns
    4.3.2  Held-out data for verification
    4.3.3  The underlying language to stand on
    4.3.4   Interaction between language and writing
  4.4  Number of symbols and type of script
  Summing-up

  References
  Further reading
Chapter V Interaction between Language and Writing: Decipherment of Linear B
  Jumping-in
  5.1  Linear B
  5.2  The decipherment of Linear B
    5.2.1  Alice Kober: building the grid
    5.2.2  Emmett Bennett: expanding with data
    5.2.3   Michael Ventris: assigning sound values
    5.2.4  John Chadwick: supporting, refining, documenting
  5.3  Frequency, entropy, and more
  Summing-up
  References
  Further reading
Chapter VI Writing, Literacy, and Society
  Jumping-in
  6.1  Literacy: the multifaceted nature
  6.2  Literate society vs. oral society
  6.3  Alphabetic literacy vs. logographic literacy
  6.4  Script reform and literacy rate: the Chinese case
    6.4.1  Foreign attempts to romanize Chinese
    6.4.2  Native attempts to romanize Chinese
    6.4.3  Character simplification
  Summing-up
  References
  Further reading
Chapter VII Printing, Stability, and Variability
  Jumping-in
  7.1  Printing in China
    7.1.1  Block printing
    7.1.2  Movable type printing
  7.2  Printing in Europe
    7.2.1  Manuscripts and scribes
    7.2.2  Gutenberg and the printing press
    7.2.3  Gutenberg and the Gothic type
    7.2.4  Printing and the standardization of English
  Summing-up
  References
  Further reading
Chapter VIII Typewriter, Mind, and Style
  Jumping-in
  8.1  Malling-Hansen and Writing Ball
  8.2  Sholes and the QWERTY keyboard
    8.2.1  Theories on the QWERTY rationale
    8.2.2  Head start and path dependency
  8.3  Typewriter and writing style
  8.4  Chinese typewriter
    8.4.1  Characters of common usage and movable typewriter
    8.4.2  Divisible type and combinatorial typewriter
    8.4.3  Search-writing and MingKwai typewriter

  8.5  Typewriter and women’s entrance into office
  Summing-up
  References
  Further reading
Chapter IX Telegraph, Morse Code, and Global Connectivity
  Jumping-in
  9.1  The semiotic architecture: Morse Code
  9.2  Logographic writing and Morse Code
  9.3  “Communication” reconceptualized
  9.4  Journalistic style, news objectivity, and information consumption
  9.5  Cable adventure, a thread across the ocean, and global connectivity
  Summing-up
  References
  Further reading
Chapter X Linguistics, Rationalism, and Rule-Based Machine Translation
  Jumping-in
  10.1  Formal grammar and MT
  10.2  Parsing: constituency vs. dependency
    10.2.1  Constituency structure
    10.2.2  Dependency structure
    10.2.3  Trees and brackets
  10.3  Types of RBMT
    10.3.1  Direct translation approach
    10.3.2  Transfer approach
    10.3.3  Interlingual approach
  10.4  Achievements and limitations
  Summing-up
  References
  Further reading
Chapter XI Corpora, Empiricism and Data-driven Machine Translation
  Jumping-in
  11.1  Text, corpora, and SMT
  11.2  Probability and SMT
  11.3  IBM models: groundwork of SMT
  11.4  Scope of SMT: from word to sentence
  11.5  Neural MT and beyond
  Summing-up
  References
  Further reading
Chapter XII MT Literacy and MT Ethics
  Jumping-in
  12.1  Ambiguity, thy name is language
    12.1.1  Lexical ambiguity
    12.1.2  Morphological ambiguity
    12.1.3  Syntactical ambiguity
    12.1.4  Discoursal ambiguity
  12.2  MT ethics
  12.3  MT literacy in the scholarly community
    12.3.1  As text creator
    12.3.2  As MT user

  Summing-up
  References
  Further reading
Chapter XIII Social Media and Language Play
  Jumping-in
  13.1  Language: spoken vs. written
  13.2  Language online: a third kind
  13.3  Features of CMC
  13.4  Language play in WeChat group chat
    13.4.1  Bracketed annotation and Cooperative Principle
    13.4.2  Bracketed annotation and Politeness Principle
    13.4.3  Bracketed annotation: playing by flouting maxims
  Summing-up
  References
  Further reading
Master Bibliography
Works Consulted
Name Index
Subject Index
List of Figures

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