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Chapter 14. Technological context

A new pragmatic product created by mobile devices

Abstract

This study investigated the impact of technological devices on Kuwaiti youths as creators of a technological context with its own pragmatic parameters. To the youth, a parallel communicative world is in action when they engage in any communicative repertoire using mobile devices. I conducted a survey at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait to investigate the existence of such a contextual realm and whether it has its own regulatory factors. A majority of my respondents emphasized that when talking with any person using a mobile device, they are indeed engaged in a communicative environment, the context of which has its own regulatory parameters, such as emoticons, pictures, sound files, text files, tweets, and so on. A majority of the respondents insisted that they feel more secure when using their mobile devices, implying that they become different individuals when doing so, and that this sudden role change occurs due to the contextual environment in which they are engaged. This study emphasizes that the technological context is the product of instant collaboration between two or more communicators in a real-time situation. I argue that technological meanings are produced solely in a technological context and, thus, their facilitating environments differ from those found in the real world.

Abstract

This study investigated the impact of technological devices on Kuwaiti youths as creators of a technological context with its own pragmatic parameters. To the youth, a parallel communicative world is in action when they engage in any communicative repertoire using mobile devices. I conducted a survey at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait to investigate the existence of such a contextual realm and whether it has its own regulatory factors. A majority of my respondents emphasized that when talking with any person using a mobile device, they are indeed engaged in a communicative environment, the context of which has its own regulatory parameters, such as emoticons, pictures, sound files, text files, tweets, and so on. A majority of the respondents insisted that they feel more secure when using their mobile devices, implying that they become different individuals when doing so, and that this sudden role change occurs due to the contextual environment in which they are engaged. This study emphasizes that the technological context is the product of instant collaboration between two or more communicators in a real-time situation. I argue that technological meanings are produced solely in a technological context and, thus, their facilitating environments differ from those found in the real world.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Section I. Adapting truth, speech acts, and ideologies
  5. Chapter 1. Adaptability and truth 27
  6. Chapter 2. How do we adapt ourselves in performing an illocutionary act? 37
  7. Chapter 3. Adapting to changing concepts of time 55
  8. Chapter 4. The reality of technological worldviews 75
  9. Section II. Adapting text and textuality
  10. Chapter 5. Ad-appting children’s stories 101
  11. Chapter 6. Self-containment and contamination 117
  12. Chapter 7. Quotation, meta-data and transparency of sources in mediated political discourse 143
  13. Chapter 8. The adaptability of becoming 171
  14. Section III. Adaptive communities of practice
  15. Chapter 9. Face, conflict, and adaptability in mediated intercultural invitations 191
  16. Chapter 10. Discussing breast cancer in cyber spaces 213
  17. Chapter 11. Expressing opinions and emotions while travelling on-line 235
  18. Chapter 12. How LINE users struggle to come to terms with the adaptability-adaptivity dilemma 259
  19. Section IV. Adapting learning and teaching
  20. Chapter 13. Apprenticeship in microbiology 285
  21. Chapter 14. Technological context 299
  22. Chapter 15. Language policy and language teaching 325
  23. Index 343
The Pragmatics of Adaptability
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch The Pragmatics of Adaptability
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.319.14als

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Section I. Adapting truth, speech acts, and ideologies
  5. Chapter 1. Adaptability and truth 27
  6. Chapter 2. How do we adapt ourselves in performing an illocutionary act? 37
  7. Chapter 3. Adapting to changing concepts of time 55
  8. Chapter 4. The reality of technological worldviews 75
  9. Section II. Adapting text and textuality
  10. Chapter 5. Ad-appting children’s stories 101
  11. Chapter 6. Self-containment and contamination 117
  12. Chapter 7. Quotation, meta-data and transparency of sources in mediated political discourse 143
  13. Chapter 8. The adaptability of becoming 171
  14. Section III. Adaptive communities of practice
  15. Chapter 9. Face, conflict, and adaptability in mediated intercultural invitations 191
  16. Chapter 10. Discussing breast cancer in cyber spaces 213
  17. Chapter 11. Expressing opinions and emotions while travelling on-line 235
  18. Chapter 12. How LINE users struggle to come to terms with the adaptability-adaptivity dilemma 259
  19. Section IV. Adapting learning and teaching
  20. Chapter 13. Apprenticeship in microbiology 285
  21. Chapter 14. Technological context 299
  22. Chapter 15. Language policy and language teaching 325
  23. Index 343
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