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.
0521575583 9780521575584 0521443113 9780521443111
93026382
Written communication
Cognition.
P211 / .O53 1994
302.224401
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.
0521575583 9780521575584 0521443113 9780521443111
93026382
Written communication
Cognition.
P211 / .O53 1994
302.224401