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Zustand: as new. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1991. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 284 pp. - The computer revolution, like many of the technologies that preceded, is producing an abundance of new terms and catchphrases that are making their way into the English language. In this lively account, computerese expert John A. Barry chronicles an important linguistic development which he has termed technobabble: the pervasive and indiscriminate use of computer terminology, especially as it is applied to situations that have nothing at all to do with technology. Technobabble examines the new computer lexicon from an etymological, historical, and anecdotal perspective. It reveals technobabble's origins among the high priests of the advanced research laboratories of the 1950s, describing the folkways by which this sublanguage becomes incorporated into the vocabulary of the larger society, and predicting some of the new dimensions technobabble is likely to assume in coming years. Barry details the technobabble style, which is characterized by logorrhea, excessive use of the passive voice, anthropomorphism, vague and abstract language, euphemism, obfuscation, solecism, synecdoche, and mangled metaphors. And he delves into technobabble's sexual, pharmacological, political, religious, and other connotations. Perhaps one of the most troubling implications of this new style of communicating, Barry points out, is that technobabble tends to apply a mechanistic lexicon to human interaction, while describing computer processes in human terms. These days, for example, many people do not merely converse with one another; they interface. (Computers, on the other hand, are said to talk to each other.) It is not uncommon to hear people refer to their leisure hours as downtime. In California'sSilicon Valley (the wellspring of much of the technobabble lexicon), getting something off one's chest is also known as core-dumping. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780262023337. Keywords : computer science,

Originalbroschur. Zustand: Gut. Einband leicht berieben. - What Is Technobabble? -- Genesis and Evolution -- Proliferation -- High-Tech Tower of Babel -- Techniques of Coinage -- Elements of Style -- Sex, Drug, and Holy Paroles -- Apocrypha and Folklore -- The Tyranny of User Friendliness -- NOW-THEN -- Appendixes: Internationalization: Technobabble in Other Languages -- Random Strings of TechnoLatin -- Xerox and the Technobabble Quotient -- Psycho/Technobabble. ISBN 9780262521826 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge 1991. xv, 268 pp. Paperback. Fine condition.