Reading words and saying them allowed seems to be an easy
task many people undertake every day, But we do not understand the complexity
of the cognitive processes which occur for one to read and speak words. The
‘children of the code project’ say that it is artificial for people to read an
alphabetical orthography as the complex cognitive interaction, when the brain
and environment work together, is unnatural. In history, children were not made
to learn how to read until the King of Sweden made every child in his Kingdom
learn. The defective orthography to read and take in information is a technical
cognitive process supporting how the codes are confusing. Inconsistency of
phonemes such as the morpheme ‘O’ is a challenge which takes time to understand
as you cannot see how a morpheme is needed to be pronounced by the orthography.
Turning this orthography to phonography is a particular language itself,
coordinating different parts of the brain at once: from the temporal lobe-
memory- , the Wernicke and Broca- for spoken language- and the occipital lobe
for reading the orthography.
The power of writing allows an individual to appreciate the
words in which we speak. When you start writing, only then you can refer back
to what you have written unlike speech when you say what you think without
reflecting on what you just said as you can think about your thoughts. The
power of writing is underrated with people not understanding how writing allows
you to really think about the words.
When you speak, you do not think about the spelling of the word and you
will only be able to learn the spelling once you put pen to paper. Even on the
computer, you are able to auto-correct the spelling of words without taking the
role of the cognitive process to fully learn the correct spelling. This could
be why people do not appreciate the power of writing as much as they did when
reading and writing was first brought about. John Searle concludes the power of
writing by saying ‘you would not be able to think as well as you can think if
you didn’t have the word written down’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0n1LHCqbNs
– what’s so difficult>?
http://www.childrenofthecode.org/Tour/c5/power.htm
-The power of writing
Good explanation. Check morpheme vs grapheme.
ReplyDeleteAlso consider how different the written mode is to the spoken mode in terms of its conventions and how mch that is changing with multi-modal forms like email and chat.