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Why We Don't Talk to Each Other Anymore: The de-Voicing of Society
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Why We Don't Talk to Each Other Anymore: The de-Voicing of Society Paperback - 1999

by John L. Locke

The cyber-age is robbing people of the most important aspect of communication: face-to-face encounters and heart-to-heart conversations. Now, a professor of human communication sciences shows where community has disappeared to and why it matters.


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We Have Arrived at the Information Age -- But Not in Person
E-mail, voice mail, fax machines, beepers. Technology is overwhelming us with information, driving out the sound of human voices. We have gained the advantage of nearly constant interaction with others but make only partial connections; in the process, we are losing something precious. In this witty and intelligent book, prominent psycholinguist John Locke takes a hard look at what we are really missing as intimate forms of self-expression vanish.
Talking is the way we build and maintain relationships. Talking is the way that we learn to trust one another. But we now spend our days exchanging electronic factoids, leaving us little time to "just talk." Without intimate conversation, we can't really know others well enough to trust them or work with them harmoniously. We even lose track of our own selves -- our sense of humor, our own particular way of looking at things. We become lonely.
Keenly perceptive and though-provoking, Why We Don't Talk to Each Other Anymore is a provocative look at how we live with -- and without -- one another.

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  • Title Why We Don't Talk to Each Other Anymore: The de-Voicing of Society
  • Author John L. Locke
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Touchstone Books, New York, NY
  • Date 1999-08-31
  • ISBN 9780684855745 / 0684855747
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 5.4 x 0.59 in (21.64 x 13.72 x 1.50 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Conversation analysis - Social aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98014921
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.346

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John L. Locke is a biolinguist who has contributed to the understanding of language development and the evolution of language.
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