Image from Google Jackets

The world on paper : the conceptual and cognitive implications of writing and reading / David R. Olson. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)1994.Description: xix, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521443113
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • P211.W675 1994
Online resources:
Available additional physical forms:
  • COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:
Contents:
Demythologizing literacy Theories of literacy and mind from Levy-Bruhl to Sribner and Cole Literacy and the conceptual revolutions of classical Greece and Renaissance Europe What writing represents: a revisionist history of writing What writing doesn't represent: how texts are to be taken The problem of interpretation: the recovery of communicative intention A history of reading: from the spirit of the text to the intentions of the author Reading the book of nature: the conceptual origins of early modern science A history of written discourse: from mnemonics to representations Representing the world in maps, diagrams, formulas, pictures and texts Representing the mind: the origins of subjectivity The making of the literate mind.
Summary: What role has writing played in the development of our modern understanding of language, nature, and ourselves? In the 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; that our consciousness of language is structured by our writing system. In addition, he argues that writing provides our dominant models for thinking about nature and the mind, and shows how our understanding of the world and our understanding of ourselves are by-products of our ways of creating and interpreting written texts. This challenging study draw in recent advances in history, anthropology, linguistics, and psychology.
Item type: Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library Withdrawn Non-fiction P211.O53 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) WITHDRAWN 31923001450689

Demythologizing literacy Theories of literacy and mind from Levy-Bruhl to Sribner and Cole Literacy and the conceptual revolutions of classical Greece and Renaissance Europe What writing represents: a revisionist history of writing What writing doesn't represent: how texts are to be taken The problem of interpretation: the recovery of communicative intention A history of reading: from the spirit of the text to the intentions of the author Reading the book of nature: the conceptual origins of early modern science A history of written discourse: from mnemonics to representations Representing the world in maps, diagrams, formulas, pictures and texts Representing the mind: the origins of subjectivity The making of the literate mind.

What role has writing played in the development of our modern understanding of language, nature, and ourselves? In the 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; that our consciousness of language is structured by our writing system. In addition, he argues that writing provides our dominant models for thinking about nature and the mind, and shows how our understanding of the world and our understanding of ourselves are by-products of our ways of creating and interpreting written texts. This challenging study draw in recent advances in history, anthropology, linguistics, and psychology.

COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha