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Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization

Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization

Ong, Walter J.
Zlatic, Thomas D.
Van Den Berg, Sara

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Literary CriticismLinguisticsGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1501712047
ISBN13: 9781501712043
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Jan 15 2018
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Language in all its modes--oral, written, print, electronic--claims the central role in Walter J. Ong's acclaimed speculations on human culture. After his death, his archives were found to contain unpublished drafts of a final book manuscript that Ong envisioned as a distillation of his life's work. This first publication of Language as Hermeneutic, reconstructed from Ong's various drafts by Thomas D. Zlatic and Sara van den Berg, is more than a summation of his thinking. It develops new arguments around issues of cognition, interpretation, and language. Digitization, he writes, is inherent in all forms of writing, from its early beginnings in clay tablets. 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.

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