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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451542703321

Autore

Harris Roy <1931->

Titolo

Rethinking writing [[electronic resource] /] / [by] Roy Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-281-29473-X

9786611294731

1-84714-099-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Collana

Continuum Collection

Disciplina

302.2/244

Soggetti

Written communication

Literacy

Semiotics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Foreword: Writing and Civilization; 1 Aristotle's Abecedary; 2 Structuralism in the Scriptorium; 3 Writing off the Page; 4 Notes on Notation; 5 Alphabetical Disorder; 6 Ideographic Hallucinations; 7 On the Dotted Line; 8 Beyond the Linguistic Pale; 9 Mightier than the Word; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The traditional Western view of writing, from Aristotle down to the present day, has treated the written word as a visual substitute for the spoken word. The eminent Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) was the first to provide this traditional assumption with a reasoned basis by incorporating it into a more general theory of signs. In the wake of Saussure's work, modern linguistics has ignored or marginalized writing in favour of the study of speech.In all literate societies, however, speech in turn is interpreted by reference to the culturally dominant writing system. This puts i