Communicative style varies with circumstances and purposes. Over millions of years, primate vocal communication co-evolved with sociality among family and friends. Writing, in contrast, developed about 5500 years ago. Prior to the last three centuries, use of writing has been almost wholly limited to a small, elite group, and writing has been used primarily for … Continue reading long-run trend in writing style
Writing is much more socially complex than making art and making music. Art and music draw on natural forms and make sense at a low level of neurological processing. A single person could invent a form of visual art or music that might be engaging to many others without a specific investment in teaching them. … Continue reading writing emerged from accounting
The physical presentation of symbolic works, e.g. music packaging and book bindings, play a key role in creating exchange value. … Read the post no music but in things
Persons’ spatial representations of an action described verbally are biased in the spatial orientation of the action. Recent research indicates that a left-to-right bias develops from experience of a culture’s left-to-right writing system, and a right-to-left bias likewise from a right-to-left writing system. The Morgan Bible of Louis IX and the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, … Continue reading writing direction influences spatial representation
The proliferation of novels since the 18th century has prompted claims of a reading revolution: a shift from intensive reading to extensive reading. … Read the post novel content creation and the 18th-century reading revolution