LING 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Usenet, Sine Wave, Arpanet
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Older than web (email, forums are pre-web internet varieties) Conventionalized in style: (cid:862)e(cid:373)ail to stra(cid:374)ger(cid:863) (cid:448)s (cid:862)e(cid:373)ail to frie(cid:374)d(cid:863, threaded. Discussion groups that people post to: indexed by topic & subtopic, threaded. Internet construction combining conventionalized templates with variations. Memes = meaningful template + novel contribution. Even just concept of captioning is memetic. When you x: when you miss bae, when one slice left but everybody still hungry. Language revolves around symbolic relationships between forms & concepts they represent. Word but also phoneme and segment, and cultural & pragmatic meaning. Convention, abstractness, arbitrariness in all types of meaningful association, plain physics, math and programming expressions, and in visual representations (writing systems) Humanistic and artistic but abstract, symbolic, quantifiable, objective. 6e: deal with sound, can see on spectrogram (dark bands) and waveform. Waveform: measure of amplitude (change in pressure, either + or -) over time.
