The world on paper : the conceptual and cognitive implications of writing and reading / David R. Olson.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994Description: xix, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0521575583
- 9780521575584
- 0521443113
- 9780521443111
- 302.224401 20
- P211 .O53 1994
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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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