29.476, Books: The Tyranny of Writing: Weth, Juffermans (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:18:45
From: Lianna Iwanikiw [lianna.iwanikiw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Tyranny of Writing: Weth, Juffermans (eds.)

 


Title: The Tyranny of Writing 
Subtitle: Ideologies of the Written Word 
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Sociolinguistics  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/the-tyranny-of-writing-9781474292467/ 


Editor: Constanze Weth
Editor: Kasper Juffermans

Electronic: ISBN:  9781474292443 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 94.99 Comment: ePUB
Electronic: ISBN:  9781474292450 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 94.99 Comment: ePDF
Hardback: ISBN:  9781474292467 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 95.00


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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