Language in the digital era : challenges and perspectives
Registro en:
978-3-11-047205-9
10.1515/9783110472059
Autor
Dejica, Daniel
Hansen, Gyde
Sandrini, Peter
Para, Iulia
Institución
Resumen
This collected volume brings together the contributions of several humanities scholars
who focus on the evolution of language in the digital era. The eighteen contributions
are divided into three thematic parts, which explore general aspects of humanities
and linguistics in the digital environment, the evolution of language and translation
in today’s digitized society, and the changes, challenges and perspectives of language
teaching and learning in the age of technology.
Part I, Humanities Gone Digital, explores general aspects of humanities and
linguistics in the digital environment.
In the opening chapter, Recent Trends in Digital Humanities Scholarship, Mary P.
Sheridan highlights the increasing role of digital media within higher education. The
author claims that digital technologies are changing the ways we learn and teach,
as well as the ways we compose and research. According to her, these changes are
occurring throughout the academy, including the humanities—a set of disciplines
less associated with technology. Mary P. Sheridan describes the rise of the Digital
Humanities (DH) in the United States, defines and illustrates DH projects from many
countries, and offers suggestions for incorporating DH projects in our work.
In the second chapter, Theme-Rheme Analysis of English and Romanian Tourism
Websites, Claudia Elena Stoian and Daniel Dejica present the results of a contrastive
Theme-Rheme analysis performed on a corpus of commercial websites from Great
Britain and Romania, meant to promote these countries and some of their heritage
sites internationally via the Internet. Using a framework provided by Systemic
Functional Linguistics, the authors identify, analyze and compare the Themes and
the Thematic structures prevalent in these websites.
In the third chapter, Necessary and Luxury English Loanwords in Some Romanian
Online Newspapers and Magazines, Simona Șimon claims that the socio-economic
and political context of contemporary Romania favours the private and professional
communication between the local people and other nationalities. Since English is
the most frequently taught language in the Romanian public schools, it is no wonder
that it is often used in private and professional exchanges. The author claims that an
expected consequence of this situation is the borrowing of English words into the
Romanian language. In her study, she identifies the necessary and luxury English
loanwords used in some Romanian online newspapers and magazines, and presents
her own conclusion in this respect.