The world on paper : the conceptual and cognitive implications of writing and reading /

Olson, David R., 1935-

The world on paper : the conceptual and cognitive implications of writing and reading / David R. Olson. - xix, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-304) and index.

Demythologizing literacy -- Theories of literacy and mind from Levy-Bruhl to Scribner 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.

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Written communication
Cognition.

P211 / .O53 1994

302.224401

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