Name: The Tyranny of Writing: Ideologies of the Written Word (en Inglés)
Price: 79190.00 CLP
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Author: Weth, Constanze ; Juffermans, Kasper
ISBN: 9781350123113

portada The Tyranny of Writing: Ideologies of the Written Word (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Autor

Weth, Constanze ; Juffermans, Kasper

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

240

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.4 x 15.6 x 1.3 cm

Peso

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9781350123113

Categorías

Sociolingüística
Alfabetismo

The Tyranny of Writing: Ideologies of the Written Word (en Inglés)

Weth, Constanze ; Juffermans, Kasper (Autor) · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Tyranny of Writing: Ideologies of the Written Word (en Inglés)"

This book examines the powerful role of writing in society. The invention of writing, independently at various places and times in history, always stood at the cradle of powerful civilizations. It is impossible to imagine modern life without writing. As individuals and social groups we hold high expectations of its potential for societal and personal development. Globally, huge resources have been and are being invested in promoting literacy worldwide. So what could possibly be tyrannical about writing?The title is inspired by Ferdinand de Saussure's argument against writing as an object of linguistic research and what he called la tyrannie de la lettre. His critique denounced writing as an imperfect, distorted image of speech that obscures our view of language and its structure. The chapters of the book, written by experts in language and literacy studies, go beyond this and explore tyrannical aspects of writing in society through history and around the world: from Medieval Novgorod, the European Renaissance and 19th-century France and Germany over colonial Sudan to postcolonial Sri Lanka and Senegal and present-day Hong Kong and Central China to the Netherlands and Spain. The metaphor of 'tyranny of writing' serves as a heuristic for exploring ideologies of language and literacy in culture and society and tensions and contradictions between the written and the spoken word.