Tuesday, October 16, 2007

neologising

oh we are very prone to this - at first hit perhaps there is some social capital to be had from buzzwords... e-learning, e-teaching, e-literacy, e-lectracy... e-w!
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/neologising the creation of new words or senses - I like that bit about it being a symptom of certain psychotic disorders!
Saw it in this excellent review by Allan Martin of the 1st edition of New Literacies.

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