 | Jack Goody - Education - 1975 - 364 pages
...major social importance. Non-phonetic writing, on the other hand, tends rather to record and reify only those items in the cultural repertoire which...tends to express the collective attitude towards them. The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination... | |
 | Rainer Schulze - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 338 pages
...doing so they register, record, make permanent the existing social and ideological picture", whereas phonetic writing, by imitating human discourse, is...tends to express the collective attitude towards them, [my emphasis - MS] 2 Cf. Street's notion of "autonomous" and "ideological" approaches to literacy.... | |
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... written vocabulary can be easily and unambiguously expanded. Phonetic systems are therefore adapted to expressing every nuance of individual thought, to recording personal reactions as well as items of major social importance. Non-phonetic writing,... 