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Summary:

The Handbook of Technical Communication brings together a variety of topics which range from the role of technical media in human communication to the linguistic, multimodal enhancement of present-day technologies. It covers the area of computer-mediated text, voice and multimedia communication as well as of technical documentation. In doing so, the handbook takes professional and private communication into account. Special emphasis is put on technical communication by means of web 2.0 technologies and its standardization in system development. In summary, the handbook deals with theoretical issues of technical communication and its practical impact on the development and usage of text and speech technologies.

Table of Contents:

• Frontmatter
• Introduction to the handbook series: Linguistics for problem solving
• Contents
• Introduction: Framing Technical Communication
• I. Basic communication technologies & infrastructures
• 1. Document Authoring: from Word Processing to Text Generation
• 2. Representation of Documents in Technical Communication
• 3. Foundations of markup languages
• 4. Controlled Language Structures in Technical Communication
• 5. Document Classification, Information Retrieval, Text and Web Mining
• 6. Multimodal and Speech Technology
• 7. Resources for technical communication systems
• 8. Evaluation of Technical Communication
• II. Technical communication management
• 9. Lexicography, terminology and ontologies
• 10. Multilingual Computing
• 11. Scholarly Communication
• 12. Verbal communication protocols in safety-critical system operations
• 13. Multimodal Communication
• 14. Decentralized Online Social Networks

• 15. Digital Curation as Communication Mediation
• III. Communication by means of technology
• 16. Internet-Based Communication
• 17. Tutoring Systems and Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
• 18. Framing Multimodal Technical Communication: With Focal Points in Speech-Gesture-Integration and Gaze Recognition
• 19. Barrier-free communication
• 20. Artificial Interactivity
• 21. Ubiquitous computing
• 22. P2P-based Communication
• Biographical notes
• Index.

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Contributors:

Mehler, Alexander, 1967-

Romary, Laurent

Gibbon, Dafydd

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Handbook of technical communication (Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2012 — ISBN 9783110188349; ISBN 3110188341; OCLC Number 742048381)

Related Series:

Handbooks of applied linguistics; v. 8

Subjects:

Communication of technical information

Technical writing

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 839 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

T10.5 .H35 2012eb

ISBNs:

9783110224948 (electronic bk.)
3110224941 (electronic bk.)
9783110188349 [Invalid]
3110188341 (Cloth) [Invalid]
9783110224848 (e-ISBN) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2012533514
2013430015 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

847594284