The Semiotics of Writing: Transdisciplinary perspectives on the technology of writing

The fifteen articles that make up this volume were presented and discussed at an international conference entitled ‘The Semiotics of Writing: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on the Technology of Writing’, held at the International Centre of Semiotic and Cognitive Studies of the University of San Marino from 12-14th November 1999.Some central themes explored awere as follows: * The semiotics of writing: writing construed as a socio-semiotic system for human communication and meaning-making* Writing and cognition: the role of writing in the development of ontological and other forms of categories, concepts, forms of argumentation, inference and reasoning* Writing and culture: the role of the various systems, forms and genres of writing in the evolution and development of human culture* Writing science: the role of the semiotic system of writing in on-going processes of scientific research and communication* Writing and learning: the role of writing in institutionalised and other forms of teaching and learning* Writing technologies: how modern technologies designed specifically to write with, and in, affect the writing process and the types of texts produced