Information Society Through the Prism of Language and Culture
- DOI
- 10.2991/fred-19.2020.80How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- sublanguage of information technologies, information society
- Abstract
The article defines stages of development of information technologies sublanguage, its functions and a place in the system of the national language. The modern stage is marked by wide penetration of special vocabulary of information technologies sublanguage in all strata of the Russian language, both literary and non-literary: vernacular, slang and jargon. It is argued that the introduction of information technology generates linguistic and cultural changes in modern Russian society, indicating its steady transformation into the information society. The increased importance of engineering and technology is associated with symptoms of determinologization: penetration of terms and nomina from the sublanguage of information technologies in the common-literary language - and deprofessionalization: penetration of professional words and professional jargon words. Technocratic thinking determines the nature of modern metaphors: aiming at assimilating a human to technical devices, giving technology human qualities. Globalization processes are expressed in the flow of borrowings from the Anglo-American language. The dominance of the role of information is manifested in the expansion of semantics, lexical compatibility, increasing frequency of use of lexemes информация (information), информационный (informational), интернет (Internet), веб (web), сеть (network). Redundancy, fragmentation, rhizomatism, network principle of organization of information systems form hypertext, which becomes the principle and translator of network communication. Axiological and value-based anti-hierarchy are manifested in the blurring of boundaries of the language, erasing boundaries of the sublanguage of information technologies both between it and literary language, vernacular and jargon, as well as within the sublanguage. At the language level, the virtualization of reality is manifested in the functioning of combinations like: реальная действительность (real reality), виртуальная действительность (virtual reality), дополненная реальность (augmented reality), etc. Now it is impossible to consider as pleonasticity expression реальная действительность (real reality), since the expression виртуальная реальность (virtual reality) is used actively. The symbolic nature of values relates to status aspects: "in the post-industrial era, the essential thing is not the consumption of material objects, but the consumption of images, because images have a much greater capital intensity." Language creates the world, language describes it. We know what we can express with language. The rest is valuable, but - alas - is animal mooing. L. Ulitskaya
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - N.N. Goncharova PY - 2020/01 DA - 2020/01 TI - Information Society Through the Prism of Language and Culture BT - Proceedings of the International Session on Factors of Regional Extensive Development (FRED 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 397 EP - 401 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/fred-19.2020.80 DO - 10.2991/fred-19.2020.80 ID - Goncharova2020/01 ER -