课程信息
课程名称：新媒体语言：计算机媒介传播/Language in New media: Computer mediated communication
课程代码：GEHA1210
课程学分：2
课程简介
Currently, new media, such as WeChat, ChatGPT, Situation gaming, are prosperous, and these genres are considered as hybrids of Informatics and Linguistics.
As for the relation of computer and language, text mining, annotation or coding of language databases are also expected to be technical transfer for social optimization and dedication.
This kind of study of language usage belongs to “Computer Mediated Communication (CMC)”, which examines the characteristics of media and its influence on language use.
On the other hand, there is one field of linguistics, called “Genre Analysis”, which studies the relationship between speech genre and language feature.
This course applies this method of genre analysis to consider the similarity of linguistics and Informatics, related to the development of new communication tools, with the teaching method focused on case-study and inductive approach. Thus, the actual conversation taken in Wechat, Chatbots, GPT chat, and PPS gaming characters are in the scope of annotation in the class session.
This course also provides students to have some opportunities of practical activities; Discussion of each student’s analysis on selected conversation/ text, in Japanese/ English/ Chinese can be discussed every 2-3 weeks in Chinese language, and Going town to practice ethnomethodology or sociolinguistics, or practice coding by using some corpus and language data.
Students are also expected to convey their own small-scale research by several students’ groups, then may have the opportunity to give presentation of their work in the real conference.
Kaoru Amino 点击查看教师简介