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In Signs, Language and Communication readers familiar with the arguments of Professor Harris' previous work, including Signs of Writing, will find those ideas developed here to cover not just writing, but aspects of art, design and manufacture. Roy Harris proposes a new theory of communication. He begins with the premise that the mental life of an individual should be conceived as a continuous attempt to integrate the present with the past and future. He concludes by arguing that communication should be viewed as both a product and a resource of this constant act of integration.
In Signs of Writing Roy Harris re-examines basic questions about
writing that have long been obscured by the traditional assumption
that writing is merely a visual substitute for speech.
By treating writing as an independent mode of communication, based
on the use of spatial relations to connect events separated in
time, the author shows how musical, mathematical and other forms of
writing obey the same principles as verbal writing. These
principles, he argues, apply to texts of all kinds: a sonnet, a
symphonic score, a signature on a cheque and a supermarket label.
Moreover, they apply throughout the history of writing, from
hieroglyphics to hypertext.
This is the first book to provide a new general theory of writing
in over forty years. Signs of Writing will be essential reading for
anyone interested in language and communication.
The basic claim of this book is that for 2000 years and more the
western tradition has relied on two very dubious assumptions about
human communication: that each national language is a unique code
and that linguistic communication consists in the utilization of
such codes to transfer messages from mind to mind.
This book re-examines the old debate about the relationship between
rationality and literacy. Does writing "restructure consciousness?"
Do preliterate societies have a different "mind-set" from literate
societies? Is reason "built in" to the way we think? How is
literacy related to numeracy? Is the "logical form" that Western
philosophers recognize anything more than an extrapolation from the
structure of the written sentence? Is logic, as developed formally
in Western education, intrinsically beyond the reach of the
preliterate mind? What light, if any, do the findings of
contemporary neuroscience throw on such issues? Roy Harris
challenges the received mainstream opinion that reason is an
intrinsic property of the human mind, and argues that the whole
Western conception of rational thought, from Classical Greece down
to modern symbolic logic, is a by-product of the way literacy
developed in European cultures.
This book re-examines the old debate about the relationship
between rationality and literacy. Does writing "restructure
consciousness?" Do preliterate societies have a different
"mind-set" from literate societies? Is reason "built in" to the way
we think? How is literacy related to numeracy? Is the "logical
form" that Western philosophers recognize anything more than an
extrapolation from the structure of the written sentence? Is logic,
as developed formally in Western education, intrinsically beyond
the reach of the preliterate mind? What light, if any, do the
findings of contemporary neuroscience throw on such issues? Roy
Harris challenges the received mainstream opinion that reason is an
intrinsic property of the human mind, and argues that the whole
Western conception of rational thought, from Classical Greece down
to modern symbolic logic, is a by-product of the way literacy
developed in European cultures.
The basic claim of this book is that for 2000 years and more the western tradition has relied on two very dubious assumptions about human communication: that each national language is a unique code and that linguistic communication consists in the utilization of such codes to transfer messages from mind to mind.
Series Information: History of Linguistic Thought
Saussure as a linguist and Wittgenstein as a philosopher of language are arguably the two most important figures in the development of twentieth-century linguistic thought. By pointing out what their ideas have in common, in spite of emanating from very different intellectual sources, this study breaks new ground.
Saussure as a linguist and Wittgenstein as a philosopher of
language are arguably the two most important figures in the
development of twentieth-century linguistic thought. By pointing
out what their ideas have in common, in spite of emanating from
very different intellectual sources, this study breaks new ground.
In Signs of Writing Roy Harris re-examines basic questions about
writing that have long been obscured by the traditional assumption
that writing is merely a visual substitute for speech. By treating
writing as an independent mode of communication, based on the use
of spatial relations to connect events separated in time, the
author shows how musical, mathematical and other forms of writing
obey the same principles as verbal writing. These principles, he
argues, apply to texts of all kinds: a sonnet, a symphonic score, a
signature on a cheque and a supermarket label. Moreover, they apply
throughout the history of writing, from hieroglyphics to hypertext.
This is the first book to provide a new general theory of writing
in over forty years. Signs of Writing will be essential reading for
anyone interested in language and communication.
In Signs, Language and Communication readers familiar with the
arguments of Professor Harris' previous work, including Signs of
Writing, will find those ideas developed here to cover not just
writing, but aspects of art, design and manufacture. Roy Harris
proposes a new theory of communication. He begins with the premise
that the mental life of an individual should be conceived as a
continuous attempt to integrate the present with the past and
future. He concludes by arguing that communication should be viewed
as both a product and a resource of this constant act of
integration.
The Joseph Pulitzer Gold Medal for meritorious public service is an
unparalleled American media honor, awarded to news organizations
for collaborative reporting that moves readers, provokes change,
and advances the journalistic profession. Updated to reflect new
winners of the Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism and the
many changes in the practice and business of journalism, Pulitzer's
Gold goes behind the scenes to explain the mechanics and effects of
these groundbreaking works. The veteran journalist Roy J. Harris
Jr. adds fascinating new detail to well-known accounts of the
Washington Post investigation into the Watergate affair, the New
York Times coverage of the Pentagon Papers, and the Boston Globe
revelations of the Catholic Church's sexual-abuse cover-up. He
examines recent Pulitzer-winning coverage of government
surveillance of U.S. citizens and expands on underexplored stories,
from the scandals that took down Boston financial fraud artist
Charles Ponzi in 1920 to recent exposes that revealed neglect at
Walter Reed Army Medical Center and municipal thievery in Bell,
California. This one-hundred-year history of bold journalism
follows developments in all types of reporting-environmental,
business, disaster coverage, war, and more.
The Joseph Pulitzer Gold Medal for meritorious public service is an
unparalleled American media honor, awarded to news organizations
for collaborative reporting that moves readers, provokes change,
and advances the journalistic profession. Updated to reflect new
winners of the Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism and the
many changes in the practice and business of journalism, Pulitzer's
Gold goes behind the scenes to explain the mechanics and effects of
these groundbreaking works. The veteran journalist Roy J. Harris
Jr. adds fascinating new detail to well-known accounts of the
Washington Post investigation into the Watergate affair, the New
York Times coverage of the Pentagon Papers, and the Boston Globe
revelations of the Catholic Church's sexual-abuse cover-up. He
examines recent Pulitzer-winning coverage of government
surveillance of U.S. citizens and expands on underexplored stories,
from the scandals that took down Boston financial fraud artist
Charles Ponzi in 1920 to recent exposes that revealed neglect at
Walter Reed Army Medical Center and municipal thievery in Bell,
California. This one-hundred-year history of bold journalism
follows developments in all types of reporting-environmental,
business, disaster coverage, war, and more.
Ferdinand de Saussure is commonly regarded as one of the fathers of
20th Century Linguistics. His lectures, posthumously published as
the Course in General Linguistics ushered in the structuralist mode
which marked a key turning point in modern thought. Philosophers
such as Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes, psychoanalysts such as
Jacques Lacan, the anthropologist ClaudeLevi-Strauss and linguists
such as Noam Chomsky all found an important influence for their
work in the pages of Saussure's text. Published 100 years after
Saussure's death, this new edition of Roy Harris's authoritative
translation is now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series
with a substantial new introduction exploring Saussure's
contemporary influence and importance.
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