Wednesday, 24 February 2010
The meaning of reading
For most people, reading can be understood as a simple action that involves learning to pronounce words; others could say learning to read means learning to identify words and get their meaning. Even there is a few bunch of people who thinks "reading" means learning to bring meaning to a tex in order to get meaning from it. All these definitions have one word in common, "meaning". it's true that the term "reading" can be ambigous due to the many activitives that relate to this word. In that sense maybe Computers could "read" a program or animals could "read" the environment conditions for hunting. However, they act without thinking about this action, they don't realize or aren't aware of this process. For that reason for me "reading" is the notion in which you put actions and procedures of analysis and comprehension together to make sense of a text and only humans are aware of this notion.
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I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU. do you think that it's possible to read signs?
ReplyDeleteHi Bryan! I like the way that you did a summary of some different meanings of reading, however, it would be good to know more about your concept of reading.
ReplyDeleteA good introduction!
ReplyDeleteOK, I'd like to fist take out some concepts that while reading I found interesting for me: "meaning", "ambigous" and the very concept of "reading". If we consider all the posible uses we can attribute to read, read and image, read someone's facial expressions, etc., and that we can actually get a "meaning" of that we are "reading", we coul never come up with a definition or a proper use to what reading is. My ponit is, that in order not to get lost by all this polysemy and ambiguity, we have to contextualize and give a due caracteristic to the concepts we use in our everyday lifes.
ReplyDeleteI imagine you saying these words. You have a style when yo talk and when you write in english, I guess. It's clear that the author is a "mantis".
ReplyDeleteIf ancients astronomers could read the star and make a map of the constellations. I think it's possible to read signs.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you... signs are expression of a mental activity into certains social parameters and as well as writting, so we can read then in order to understand our environment our society.
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