The World on Paper
The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading
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1996
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-57558-4 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-57558-4 (ISBN)
Learning to read and write affects the way we think. David Olson here provides a historical and developmental account of the ways in which writing and reading have contributed to our modern understandings of language, nature and mind.
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.
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.
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.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.6.1996 |
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Zusatzinfo | 20 Halftones, unspecified |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 153 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 545 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
ISBN-10 | 0-521-57558-3 / 0521575583 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-57558-4 / 9780521575584 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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