GLOBALIZING 'COMMUNICATION'
Laurie Taylor considers the spread of English, from its adoption as a second or additional language by an increasing number of speakers in various parts of the world, to the borrowing of English vocabulary into other language.
Laurie also discusses patterns of communication across the globe and asks whether it is always good to talk,Ìýor as Deborah Cameron, Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University suggests, sometimes Silence is Golden.
SOUND
Sight and Sound are equally crucial to our understanding of the world, yet the visual has dominated discussions of cultural experience.Ìý The very way we relate to, and think about, our everyday world has been influenced by this emphasis on sight over sound.
Laurie Taylor is joined by Dr Michael Bull and Professor Les Back editors of a new book The Auditory Culture Reader to discuss the importance of sound.
Additional information:
Deborah Cameron
Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University
Globalizing Communication
Chapter by Deborah Cameron
from
New Media Language
Edited by Jean Aitchison and Diana M. Lewis
Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Lt
ISBN 0415283043
The Auditory Culture Reader
Edited by Michael Bull and Les Back Berg Publishers ISBN 1859736130
Sociology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex.
Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and Everyday Life
Berg PublishersÌý ISBN 1859733425
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