The Tyranny of Writing: Ideologies of the Written Word, Constanze Weth, Kasper Juffermans

Автор: Weth Constanze
Название: Tyranny of Writing
ISBN: 1474292461 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474292467
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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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.

Автор: Majumder Doyeeta
Название: Tyranny and Usurpation
ISBN: 1786941686 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786941688
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Описание: This book investigates the political, legal, historical circumstances under which the `tyrant` of early Tudor drama becomes conflated with the `usurper-tyrant` of the commercial theatres of London, and how the usurpation plot emerges as one of the central preoccupations of early modern drama.

Название: The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World: Writing Change
ISBN: 9004346163 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004346161
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World connects the fascinating field of contemporary written Arabic with the central sociolinguistic notions of language ideology and diglossia. Focusing on Egypt and Morocco, the authors combine large-scale survey data on language attitudes with in-depth analyses of actual language usage and explicit (and implicit) language ideology. They show that writing practices as well as language attitudes in Egypt and Morocco are far more receptive to vernacular forms than has been assumed.The individual chapters cover a wide variety of media, from books and magazines to blogs and Tweets. A central theme running through the contributions is the social and political function of “doing informality” in a changing public sphere steadily more permeated by written Arabic in a number of media. The e-book version of this publication is available in Open Access.