Rethinking Writing.

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 incorpo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Harris, Roy
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2005.
Series:	Continuum Collection.
Subjects:	Written communication. Literacy. Semiotics. Literacy Semiotics Written communication
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

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.

Rethinking Writing.

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