Writing: the re-construction of language

Publication date: Available online 13 September 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Andrew DavidsonAbstractThis 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 approache...

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