Rethinking Writing - Hardcover

Harris, Roy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0485115476 ISBN 13: 9780485115475

Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2000

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Reseña del editor:

The traditional western view of writing, from Aristotle down to the present day, has treated the written word as a visual substitute. Eminient Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) was the first to provide this tradiional assumption with a reasoned basis by incorporating it into a more general theory of signs. In the wake of Saussure's work, modern linguistics has ignored or marginalized writing in favour of the study of speech. In this text, Roy Harris shows that Saussure's theory of writing was deeply flawed. Reversing the orthodox priorities, Harris argues that writing is a far more powerful mode of communication than speech could ever be.

Biografía del autor:

Roy Harris is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Oxford.

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• Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0485115476
• ISBN 13: 9780485115475
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256