https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/rss/books/su54RSS.xml The latest new books in Rhetoric and Communication en-us Fri, 04 Jun 2021 05:00:00 GMT 1440 https://ucp-qa.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo109458980.html In our digital world, we owe much of our ability to communicate&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;punctuation marks, mathematical symbols, and&nbsp;other&nbsp;glyphs&nbsp;that hover on the edges of our keyboard.&nbsp;Without these symbols, it would be impossible to convey meaning—our words would run in endless unbroken lines of letters and numbers.&nbsp;These&nbsp;marks, which have their origins in the earliest&nbsp;written&nbsp;communications,&nbsp;have evolved over many hundreds of years.Hyphens & Hashtags&nbsp;presents the histories of these stalwart symbols,&nbsp;revealing&nbsp;the long road many have taken on their way&nbsp;to&nbsp;general usage. In the age of&nbsp;digital&nbsp;communication, some symbols have gained additional meanings. The obscure pound sign has transformed into the hashtag, an essential component of social media. The colon now serves double duty as the eyes of the smiley-face emoticon. Alongside&nbsp;the&nbsp;historical roots&nbsp;of these tools, this book also considers ever-evolving modern usage and uncovers those symbols which have now fallen out of fashion.&nbsp;Hyphens & Hashtags&nbsp;casts a well-deserved spotlight on these&nbsp;deceptively simple&nbsp;marks,&nbsp;whose handy knack for&nbsp;conveying&nbsp;meaning in&nbsp;simple shorthand&nbsp;can&nbsp;marshal our sentences,&nbsp;clarify&nbsp;a calculation, or add some much-needed emotion to our online interactions. <p>In our digital world, we owe much of our ability to communicate&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;punctuation marks, mathematical symbols, and&nbsp;other&nbsp;glyphs&nbsp;that hover on the edges of our keyboard.&nbsp;Without these symbols, it would be impossible to convey meaning&mdash;our words would run in endless unbroken lines of letters and numbers.&nbsp;These&nbsp;marks, which have their origins in the earliest&nbsp;written&nbsp;communications,&nbsp;have evolved over many hundreds of years.Hyphens &amp; Hashtags&nbsp;presents the histories of these stalwart symbols,&nbsp;revealing&nbsp;the long road many have taken on their way&nbsp;to&nbsp;general usage. In the age of&nbsp;digital&nbsp;communication, some symbols have gained additional meanings. The obscure pound sign has transformed into the hashtag, an essential component of social media. The colon now serves double duty as the eyes of the smiley-face emoticon. Alongside&nbsp;the&nbsp;historical roots&nbsp;of these tools, this book also considers ever-evolving modern usage and uncovers those symbols which have now fallen out of fashion.&nbsp;Hyphens &amp; Hashtags&nbsp;casts a well-deserved spotlight on these&nbsp;deceptively simple&nbsp;marks,&nbsp;whose handy knack for&nbsp;conveying&nbsp;meaning in&nbsp;simple shorthand&nbsp;can&nbsp;marshal our sentences,&nbsp;clarify&nbsp;a calculation, or add some much-needed emotion to our online interactions.</p> History: History of Technology Rhetoric and Communication Fri, 30 Apr 2021 05:00:00 GMT Claire Cock-Starkey 9781851245369