Speaking “Computer”
On page 26, the author describes a time where she was struggling to understand
computer programs and becoming highly frustrated. How did an ethnosemantic
analysis help her understand these programs? Be specific.
Task
According to the author of the text, she had a really tough time trying to work
with her university’s mainframe computer that it became frustrating. She had to learn
a“job–control language” – which, to her, was a brand new, complicated language that
sounded like English, but wasn’t. This computer language was so difficult for her that
she couldn’t even come up with questions that make sense and she had no way to
figure them out. However, she thought of a method that might help her, called
