The World on Paper
The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 20 June 1996
- ISBN 9780521575584
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages340 pages
- Size 229x153x23 mm
- Weight 545 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
New perspective on the relation between writing and the processes of thought.
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What role has writing played in the development of our modern understanding of language, nature and ourselves? In this historical and developmental account, David Olson offers a new perspective on this process. Reversing the traditional assumption about the relation between speech and writing, he argues that writing provides an important model of the way we think about speech; our consciousness of language is structured by our writing system. In addition, writing provides our dominant models for thinking about nature and the mind, and shows how our understanding of the world - our science - and our understanding of ourselves - our psychology - are by-products of our ways of creating and interpreting written texts. This challenging study draws on recent advances in history, anthropology, linguistics and psychology, and will be of interest to readers across the range of these subjects.
"This carefully crafted book is the result of focused intelligence and a great deal of learning." Anthropological Linguistics
Table of Contents:
1. Demythologising literacy; 2. Theories of literacy and mind from Levy-Bruhl to Scribner and Cole; 3. Literacy and the conceptual revolutions of Classical Greece and Renaissance Europe; 4. What writing represents; 5. What writing doesn't represent; 6. The problem of interpretation; 7. A history of reading; 8. Reading the Book of Nature; 9. A history of written discourse; 10. Representing the world in maps, diagrams, formulas, pictures and texts; 11. Representing the mind; 12. The making of the literate mind.
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