Technology - English Language

What is technology?

use of scientific knowlegde to create tools, machines and digital systems that make life easier and solve problems. It can include transportation, communication, entertainment and medicine. Changed life for the better by enabling faster communication and expanding our vocabulary with new terms.

However it also has negative effects such as the decline of traditional, standard grammar and spelling, with texting shortcuts, overuse of abbreviation and reduced face to face communication skills

Peter Kay

• compares Sky plus to being a neccesity in life

• doesnt even talk on the phone anymore, texts it

• can get whatever you want to watch anywhere

• it hinders face to face communcation

Sarah Vine

• whilst technology is a way of checking on her daughter and making sure she is safe, she is exposing her to a harsh virtual words

• even she cant take online abusive sometimes so she wonders how teenagers feels

• unequipped to deal with societies opinions and views of one another #

• she is persuasive as she uses examples of abusive swearing directed at her, detail and description through compound adjectives such as well-intentioned, heart-breaking, thick-skinned etc

affordances

benefits

constraints

weaknesses

field specific lexis

language that is unique to a particular profession/field, also known as jargon

clipping

an original word is shortened to create