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Week 12 Discussion

Get out your device, use the access code on the board, and complete the quiz!

First, remember about language acquisition:
- We acquire speech/sign
- We must learn writing
So, what about CMC/emoji?
- Characteristics?
- Writing is learned, but modern texting appears to be acquired
- CMC is often very different from traditional modes of writing
Texting seems to be about efficiency and meaning-making
- Examples?

Probably kind of pictograms/ideogram
BUT they do seem to provide a bit of extralinguistic information, like emotion, sarcasm, other message modulations
Not a separate language
Not ruining language
- Same for other parts of CMC
- These forms of communication differ stylistically from each other AND from traditional modes of communication!

Computational linguistics is the area of linguistics that applies the methods of computer science to the analysis of language and speech
Speech synthesis and speech recognition = not easy problems!!
- Speech recognition = speech-to-text (accuracy and speed)
- Speech synthesis = text-to-speech (human-like voices)
Why does it matter?

So, since we’ve said that a lot of CMC is about meaning-making , we want to know how you interpret various emojis!
For each emoji (next slide), you need to do the following:
- Answer this question: By itself, what does it mean?
- If you have differences in meaning between platforms (e.g., text vs. Snapchat), explain those.
- Write out a text message you might send with this emoji.
- Explain how the addition of this emoji adds meaning beyond the text that is there. Provide context, as needed.
- Did we miss your fave? Tell us about it in the same way!

Monday and Wednesday in Singletary
- “How do computers help with language?”
- “Are chatbots real?”
Friday = Quiz 10
- Be here!
- Let me know if you have any questions or concerns
Observation notes #6 (last one!) due next Friday!!