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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

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