>> america a university professor naomi baron is technology changing how we communicate? >> guest: yes and no. there is the assumption that technologies of computers and now mobile phones change the ways that we've right to each other because he supposedly huge use emoticons and abbreviations that we are not using that many but if maybe if you are using a lot if you are a young teenage girl but these kind of better commonly used and not as many as the press with the dust to believe but what is changing is the ways in which we read or write but our social relationships are changing and all also personal and individual psyches. >> host: walk us through those four things. >> guest: how we read. what is clear what you see on the screen with a laptop or the tablet computers or mobile phone or e-reader you don't do it the same way as a hard copy. that is the subject of the next book. i am doing research. but you tend to skim or the find function just zeroing in on the word and you look at the little snippet of what was written and ignore the concept. but we do know that when yo

american university professor naomi baron sat down with us to talk about her book, always on. this interview was conducted at american university in washington, d.c. >> american universe repress or naomi, technology changing how we communicate? >> yes and no. there's this assumption that the technologies of computers and now mobile phones are changing the way that we write to each other. because the postal using all these abbreviations and acronyms and emoticons, you actually study we are not using all that many. if you're a young teenage girl you will be using a lot. there's many handful of these kind of motor comes early, leave but not nearly as many as the press latest deadly. it's the ways in which we read, the ways in which we write, and onto what i mean by that and the second. our social relationships are changing incredibly. and i'm going to suggest a personal individual psyche are changing as well. spent walk us through those. >> let's start with how we read. what's critically is that when you're reading things on the screen, you don't do it -- of ice cream a member --

o-oscar naomi baron, who is studying the elastics today? >> guest: this is a very blood question. as a linguist i will tell you the term is so different depending which individual are talking with, which institution, which country. we studies of grammar and language. probably the biggest topic today is endangered languages. how many are there on merit? it depends what languages. 6000. how many languages are dying every day meaning they're no longer any living speakers of the language? people to project in 50 years from now will have 6000 languages. for all kinds of social and political and economic potential, speaking a language doesn't seem worth it. so children are not learning languages. if you go to meetings where there's lots of sessions on what do we do about endangered life? another big issue is is there a lingua franca, the language of the frogs, but what it really means is one language that pretty much we share amongst ourselves. it is said that used to be that. then in the 18th century it was french. the chairmen were chairman, but actually was french. and then it became