More on language functions and remediation Created by Brett Oppegaard for Washington State University's DTC 375 class, spring 2009 How do we use langauge? To communicate ideas, exchange facts and opinions yes, and how else? Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language How do we use langauge? Emotional expression Oops! Ow! Darn it! Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language How do we use langauge? Social interaction Good morning, lovely day Pleased to meet you Bless you! Thank you! Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language How do we use langauge? As rhythmic sound Shirley Oneple, Shirley Twople Shirley Tenple I like coffee, I like tea Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language How do we use langauge? As graphical representations Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language / Howdesign.com / tkhere.blogspot.com How do we use langauge? To try to control reality I baptize you I name this ship Titanic Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language How do we use langauge? Recording the facts Genealogy Census Law cases Impossible to predict how it will be used in the future (when its communicated) Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language How do we use langauge? Instrument of thought 32 plus 19 equals 51 So if I put this nail here Rough draft, gets thoughts flowing Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language How do we use langauge? Expression of identity Go Cougs! Four more years! Source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language Terms to know and use Remediation the process by which computer graphics, virtual reality and the World Wide Web define themselves by borrowing from and refashioning media such as painting, photography, television and film. Source: Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusins Remediation: Understanding New Media. Terms to know and use Immediacy is the perfection, or erasure, of the gap between the signifier and the signified, such that a representation is perceived to be the thing itself. As Burke describes naive verbal realism as a symbol being perceived as a window into the real, immediacy is a style of visual representation whose goal is to make the viewer forget the presence of the medium, canvas, screen, etc. Source: Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusins Remediation: Understanding New Media. Terms to know and use Hypermediacy In the opposite way, this is a style of visual representation whose goal is to remind the viewer of the medium. Think opaque hypermediacy versus transparent immediacy Source: Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusins Remediation: Understanding New Media.