WALTER ONG'S LAST BOOK: LANGUAGE AS HERMENEUTIC

Walter Jackson Ong, SJ, studied cultural change from a humanistic perspective, with a special focus on the role of language and media. In his more than 450 publications, he explored aural and visual communication in all its forms. His explorations enriched communication theory, rhetoric, linguistics...

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Published in:Etc. 2018-07, Vol.75 (3-4), p.329-334
Main Author: Van Den Berg, Sara
Format: Article
Language:English
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Communication
Communication (Thought Transfer)
Communication theory
Computers
Consciousness
Criticism and interpretation
Cultural anthropology
Cultural change
Culture
Digitization
Educational Practices
Electronic Equipment
Exegesis & hermeneutics
Hermeneutics
Language
Language Role
Literacy
Literature
Logical Thinking
Memory
Ong, Walter J
Ong, Walter Jackson
Personal computers
Poetry
Privacy
Psychology
Resistance (Psychology)
Rhetoric
Social networks
Speech
Works
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Summary:Walter Jackson Ong, SJ, studied cultural change from a humanistic perspective, with a special focus on the role of language and media. In his more than 450 publications, he explored aural and visual communication in all its forms. His explorations enriched communication theory, rhetoric, linguistics, literature, theology, art, psychology, and cultural anthropology. Writing restructures consciousness, he famously observed, and in Orality and Literacy, he mapped the changes in consciousness that characterize shifts from oral to chirographic to print to electronic culture. In the last 25 years of his life, Ong paid special attention to the new electronic culture that now dominates the globe. Ong developed his new hermeneutic out of his formulation of secondary orality, not as a return to the first form of communication but as a later stage that relied on literacy to craft an illusion of orality in electronic communication.
ISSN:0014-164X
2168-9245