The Internet Is A Pidgin Language

Like Swahili or Creole, think Trade-Languages:

A pidgin is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common, in situations such as trade. Pidgins are not the native language of any speech community, but are instead learned as second languages. Pidgins usually have low prestige with respect to other languages


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  1. Big Elk
    Posted September 9, 2008 at 3:38 pm | Permalink

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_zones

    The metaphor of a trading zone is being applied to collaborations in science and technology. The basis of the metaphor is anthropological studies of how different cultures are able to exchange goods, despite differences in language and culture.

  2. Big Elk
    Posted September 9, 2008 at 4:33 pm | Permalink

    http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/symbolic.htm

    Mesostructure refers to social arrangements which mediate between human interactions and formal social structures. A mesostructural analysis looks at informal, semi-formal, and sometimes even formal arrangements which provide an alternive setting other than the formal social structure for the carrying out of human interactions. Negotiated order is created largely through mesostructure, not formal structure (ex., informal arrangements among prisoners, trustees, and guards in a prison setting, in spite of what processes are specified in the formal rules of the prison).

  3. Big Elk
    Posted September 9, 2008 at 5:26 pm | Permalink

    http://www.icoins.com/ “the currency of the internet”

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