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From "cracking the orthographic code" to "playing with language": toward a usage-based foundation of the reading process

Frontiers in psychology, 2014, Vol.5, p.891-891 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © 2014 Wallot. 2014 ;ISSN: 1664-1078 ;EISSN: 1664-1078 ;DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00891 ;PMID: 25202285

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    From "cracking the orthographic code" to "playing with language": toward a usage-based foundation of the reading process
  • Author: Wallot, Sebastian
  • Subjects: language games ; language use ; meaning ; Natural Reading ; Psychology ; reading research
  • Is Part Of: Frontiers in psychology, 2014, Vol.5, p.891-891
  • Description: The empirical study of reading dates back more than 125 years. But despite this long tradition, the scientific understanding of reading has made rather heterogeneous progress: many factors that influence the process of text reading have been uncovered, but theoretical explanations remain fragmented; no general theory pulls together the diverse findings. A handful of scholars have noted that properties thought to be at the core of the reading process do not actually generalize across different languages or from situations single-word reading to connected text reading. Such observations cast doubt on many of the traditional conceptions about reading. In this article, I suggest that the observed heterogeneity in the research is due to misguided conceptions about the reading process. Particularly problematic are the unrefined notions about meaning which undergird many reading theories: most psychological theories of reading implicitly assume a kind of elemental token semantics, where words serve as stable units of meaning in a text. This conception of meaning creates major conceptual problems. As an alternative, I argue that reading shoud be rather understood as a form of language use, which circumvents many of the conceptual problems and connects reading to a wider range of linguistic communication. Finally, drawing from Wittgenstein, the concept of "language games" is outlined as an approach to language use that can be operationalized scientifically to provide a new foundation for reading research.
  • Publisher: Switzerland: Frontiers Media S.A
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1664-1078
    EISSN: 1664-1078
    DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00891
    PMID: 25202285
  • Source: PubMed Central (Open access)
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