Studies in Writing

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Hardcover | 31 July 2001

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Developmental Perspectives on Writing LILIANA TOLCHINSKY University of Barcelona, Spain The advent of the sixties is considered a crucial moment for the discovery of writing as an object worthy of intellectual inquiry (Havelock, 1986). A number of books, which came out in that decade, set the stage for this turn-to-writing. One of them was the Preface to Plato by Eric Havelock. This book, published in 1963, was to become a milestone in the discovery of literacy as a field of research (Bockheimer, 1998). Havelock (1986) referred to three more works that came out at the same time, and Bockheimer suggested adding other publications; for example La pensee sau vage by Levi Strauss (1962); The consequences of literacy by Jack Goody and Ian Watt (1963) and La geste et la parole by Laroi -Gourham (1964/65). The authors of these books were anthropologists, philosophers and sociologists who coincided in highlighting the significance of writing for human development and, more specifically, for language development. They maintained that many insti tutions, ideas, beliefs, opinions and convictions of the Western world were a by product of an 'alphabetized mind'. Writing was for them one of the pillars of subjec tivity, responsible for the rise of consciousness, for our conception of words and for our notion of true and false. Amazingly linguists, psycho linguists, psychologists and educators did not participate in the turn-to-writing. The firstl, did not give any atten- 1 There were some exceptions to this generalization.

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Introduction: Developmental Perspectives On Writing	p. 1
Absence, Negation, Impossibility and Falsity in Children's First Writing	p. 13
Explicit Teaching and Implicit Learning of Chinese Characters	p. 33
On the Interplay of Genre and Writing Conventions in Early Text Writing	p. 55
The Development of Graphic Words in Written Spanish: What can be learnt from counterexamples?	p. 77
Learning the Written Morphology of Plural in Written French	p. 97
The Power of Plural	p. 109
Talking and Writing: How do children develop shared meanings in the school setting?	p. 133
Written English, Word Processors, and Meaning Making: A semiotic perspective on the development of adult students' academic writing	p. 163
References	p. 177
Author Index	p. 187
Subject Index	p. 191
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