Language as Hermeneutic – A Primer on the Word and Digitization Ong Zlatic Van

Language As HermeneuticA Primer on the Word and Digitization\nAuthor(s): Walter J. Ong, Thomas D. Zlatic, Sara van den Berg\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501714481, 978-1501714481\nSynopsis\nLanguage in all its modesoral, written, print, electronicclaims 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 After his death, his archives were found to contain unpublished drafts of a final book manuscript that Ong envisioned as a distillation of his life's work.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 electroni.