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    Writing: the re-construction of language

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    Authors
    Davidson, Andrew
    Issue Date
    2018-09-13
    Subjects
    writing
    
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    This paper takes as its point of departure David Olson’s contention (as expressed in The Mind on Paper, (2016) CUP, Cambridge) that writing affords a meta-representation of language through allowing linguistic elements to become explicit objects of awareness. In so doing, a tradition of suspicion of writing (e.g. Rousseau and Saussure) that sees it as a detour from and contamination of language is disarmed: writing becomes innocent, becomes naturalised. Also disarmed are some of the concerns given rise to by the observation made in the title of Per Linell’s book of a ‘written language bias in linguistics’ (2005, Routledge, London) with its attendant criticisms of approaches (e.g. Chomsky’s) that assume written language to be transparent to the putative underlying natural object. Taking Chomsky’s position (an unaware scriptism) as a representative point of orientation and target of critique, the paper assembles evidence that problematises the first-order, natural reality of cardinal linguistic constructs: phonemes, words and sentences. It is argued that the facticity of these constructs is artefactual and that that facticity is achieved by way of the introjection of ideal objects which the mind constructs as denotations of elements of an alphabetic writing system: the mental representation of language is transformed by engagement with writing and it is this non-natural artefact to which Structuralist/Generativist linguistics has been answering. Evidence for this position from the psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic literature is presented and discussed. The conclusion arrived at is that the cultural practice of literacy re-configures the cognitive realisation of language. Olson takes writing to be a map of the territory; however, it is suggested that the literate mind re-constructs the territory to answer to the features of the map.
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    Davidson A (2019) 'Writing: the re-construction of language', Language Sciences, 72, pp.139-149.
    Publisher
    Elsevier
    Journal
    Language Sciences
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/624146
    DOI
    10.1016/j.langsci.2018.09.004
    Additional Links
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0388000118300123
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    0388-0001
    EISSN
    1873-5746
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1016/j.langsci.2018.09.004
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