THE INTERNET AS A MEDIUM
Linguists have been nse to thinking of language in tems of
tpetch and wing eve since te abject Megumi dae coe,
Signing was added to make tea tad. When these dimensions
find, grea reliance i placed on he notion of medi or
modal, in some sta) = for spech the phonic medi
for wrung, the graphic medium (marks on a surface fo sign
ing, the Veal medium (hand movement and facil expression)
New we havea fourth dimension of ingustic communication
wen eleconi or digtalmediom,
Vise ene t compar ans of conn? The
anthropological and zoological approaches to semiocs have
thown'us he rifles of desig fare framework in which
Saone properties of communication ave dented and wed as a
Sash of comparison. In inguicy thi proedare wes ise nto
duced by Chres oer in his compaction of language with an-
trlconmuricaton. Theappossh esentalaked te question
thar docs Medium Ao that Medium B-does nt do, and vice
ern? Language, for example, pays the property of displace
Menthe biota our events remote space or tine fom
thestuation ofthe speaker), whereas pon call, for example do
tor th ees ref mene evironmental smu), Hoek’
approach brought to lgh an important point that nt allanimal