Writing and the Mind
Edited by David R. Olson and Marcelo Dascal †
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 21:3 (2013) v, 148 pp.
David R. Olson
List of John Benjamins publications for which David R. Olson plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
2016 Modes of Discourse, Modes of Rationality Or Words to That Effect: Orality and the writing of literary history, Chamberlain, Daniel F. and J. Edward Chamberlin (eds.), pp. 63–72 | Article
2013 Literacy and the languages of rationality Writing and the Mind, Olson, David R. and Marcelo Dascal † (eds.), pp. 431–447 | Article
Literacy, specifically the use of writing for rational purposes, adds a new dimension to the traditional problem of the relation between language, thought and rationality. Central to rational thought are the logical relations expressed by such terms as “is”, “or”, “and” and “not”. Whereas some see… read more
2013 Writing and the mind Writing and the Mind, Olson, David R. and Marcelo Dascal † (eds.), pp. 425–430 | Article
2012 Literacy, rationality, and logic: The historical and developmental origins of logical discourse Units of Language – Units of Writing, Joyce, Terry and David Roberts (eds.), pp. 153–164 | Article
This paper examines the claim that writing turns the implicit properties of spoken language into visible objects suited to reflection and analysis. It examines this hypothesis through an analysis of relational terms including ‘and’, ‘or’, and ‘not’, their meanings and uses in ordinary… read more
2004 On reading poetry: Expert and novice knowledge Language Development across Childhood and Adolescence, Berman, Ruth A. (ed.), pp. 211–232 | Chapter
2001 What writing is Pragmatics & Cognition 9:2, pp. 239–258 | Article
Writing bears an uncertain relation to speech. Either it is treated as a largely autonomous medium of communication or it is treated as a simple adjunct, cipher, image or record of speech. This paper offers a compromise arguing that writing exploits a special and distinctive property of speech,… read more
1999 Literacy and Children's Conception of Words Written Language & Literacy 2:1, pp. 113–140 | Article
Children's development of metalinguistic awareness has typically been portrayed as a product of more general development processes, or else as a natural consequence of speaking a language. In contrast, we suggest that, at least for certain properties of speech, literacy plays an essential role in… read more
1997 The written representation of negation Pragmatics & Cognition 5:2, pp. 235–252 | Article
While negatives are fundamental to the functioning of human languages and while they are acquired extremely early by children, there is some evidence that an aware-ness of the logical and representational functions of negation is late to develop and may depend in part on the invention of… read more
1997 5 A New Mentality Linguistics Inside Out: Roy Harris and his critics, Wolf, George and Nigel Love (eds.), pp. 99–105 | Article
1997 1. On the relations between speech and writing Writing Development: An interdisciplinary view, Pontecorvo, Clotilde (ed.), pp. 3–20 | Chapter
1994 Literacy and the making of the Western mind Functional Literacy: Theoretical issues and educational implications, Verhoeven, Ludo (ed.), pp. 135–150 | Article