Rethinking WritingRoy Harris shows that the theory of writing adopted in modern linguistics is deeply flawed. Reversing the orthodox priorities, the author argues that writing is a far more powerful mode of linguistic communication than speech could ever be. His book is a major contribution to current debates about human communication written and spoken.> |
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Table des matières
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Notes on Notation | 91 |
Alphabetical Disorder | 121 |
Ideographic Hallucinations | 138 |
On the Dotted Line | 161 |
Beyond the Linguistic Pale | 184 |
Mightier than the Word | 215 |
Bibliography | 243 |
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Page 73 - But though words, as they are used by men, can properly and immediately signify nothing but the ideas that are in the mind of the speaker, yet they in their thoughts give them a secret reference to two other things. First, They suppose their words to be marks of the ideas in the minds also of other men with whom they communicate...
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Page 18 - The same holds true of written words; you might suppose that they understand what they are saying, but if you ask them what they mean by anything they simply return the same answer over and over again.
Page vii - ... difficult, as proceeding from a watchful observation of the divers motions of the tongue, palate, lips, and other organs of speech, whereby to make as many differences of characters, to remember them. But the most noble and profitable invention of all other was that of 'speech...
Page 41 - A language is a system of signs expressing ideas, and hence comparable to writing, the deaf-and-dumb alphabet, symbolic rites, forms of politeness, military signals, and so on. It is simply the most important of such systems. It is therefore possible to conceive of a science which studies the role of signs as part of social life. It would form part of social psychology, and hence of general psychology. We shall call it semiology (from the Greek semeion 'sign'). It would investigate the nature of...
Page 39 - ZrifituaTiKii or the doctrine of signs, the most usual whereof being words, it is aptly enough termed also AoyiKfi, logic; the business whereof is to consider the nature of signs the mind makes use of for the understanding of things, or conveying its knowledge to others.
Page 64 - A symbol is a representamen whose representative character consists precisely in its being a rule that will determine its interpretant.
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Rethinking Writing |
| Auteur | Roy Harris |
| Édition | illustrée, réimprimée, révisée |
| Éditeur | A&C Black, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0826457983, 9780826457981 |
| Longueur | 254 pages |
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