John L. Locke

Eavesdropping

An Intimate History

Ebook (EPUB Format)

Why we can't resist listening in on our neighboursEavesdropping 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; fromprivate eyes to Facebook and Twitter. He uncovers the biological drive behind the behaviour, and its consequ… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-161366-1
EAN: 9780191613661
Produktnummer: 13918275
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 4'484 KB
Abbildungen: numerous black and white photographs throughout

Über den Autor

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).