Eavesdropping: An Intimate History - Couverture rigide

Locke, John L.

 
9780199236138: Eavesdropping: An Intimate History
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ISBN 10 : 0199236135 ISBN 13 : 9780199236138
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Why we can't resist listening in on our neighbours

Eavesdropping has a bad name. It is a form of human communication in which the information gained is stolen, and where such words as cheating and spying come into play. But eavesdropping may also be an attempt to understand what goes on in the lives of others so as to know better how to live one's own. John Locke's entertaining and disturbing account explores everything from sixteenth-century voyeurism to Hitchcock's 'Rear Window'; from chimpanzee behaviour to Parisian café society; from private eyes to Facebook and Twitter. He uncovers the biological drive behind the behaviour, and its consequences across history and cultures. In the age of CCTV, phone tapping, and computer hacking, this is uncomfortably important reading.

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À propos de l'auteur

John L. Locke is Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Lehman College, City University of New York. His books include Phonological Acquisition and Change (Academic Press 1983), with Michael D. Smith, The Emergent Lexicon: The Child's Development of a Linguistic Vocabulary (Academic Press, 1988), and The Child's Path to Spoken Language (Harvard University Press, 1993).



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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199236135
ISBN 13 
9780199236138
Reliure
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Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
266
Coordonnées du fabricant
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