Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (705 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501712047 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 212 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Louis College of Pharmacy.Sara ven den Berg is Professor of English and was Director of the Ong Center for Language, Culture, and Media Studies, Saint Louis University.Thomas D. Walter J. Zlatic is Professor of Literature at the St. Zlatic is Professor of Literature at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy.Sara ven den Berg is Professor of English and was Director of the Ong Center
Zlatic is Professor of Literature at the St. Ong (1912–2003) taught at Saint Louis University for thirty years. Louis College of Pharmacy.Sara ven den Berg is Professor of English and was Director of the Ong Center for Language, Culture, and Media Studies, Saint Louis University.Thomas D. About the AuthorWalter J. Zlatic is Professor of Literature at the St. His many books include Orality and Literacy, Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology; Interfaces of the Word; and Fighting for Life, the latter three from Cornell.Thomas D. Louis College of Pharmacy.Sara ven den Berg is Professor of English and was Director of the Ong Center for Language, Culture, and Media Studies, Saint Louis University.
Zlatic and Sara van den Berg, is more than a summation of his thinking. After his death, his archives were found to contain unpublished drafts of a final book manuscript that Ong envisioned as a distillation of his life’s work. It develops new arguments around issues of cognition, interpretation, and language. Language in all its modesoral, written, print, electronicclaims the central role in Walter J. This first publication of Language as Hermeneutic, reconstructed from Ong’s various drafts by Thomas D. Digitization, he writes, is inherent in all forms of "writing," from its early beginnings in clay tablets. Ong's acclaimed speculations on human culture. As digitization increases in print and now electronic culture, there is a corresponding need to counter the fractioning of digitization with the unitive attempts of hermeneutics, particularly hermeneutics that are modeled on oral rather than written paradigms.In addition to the edited text of Language as Hermeneutic, this volume includes essays on the reconstruction of Ong’s work and its significance within Ong’s intellectual pro