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A short idiosyncratic introduction to the relation between speech, writing and typography based on article by Ellen Lupton
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what is

language?

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Language is a system of units and rules. The units are words and the rules are the forms of grammar which order words. In different languages the grammar rules are different, as are the words, but the structure is still the same in all languages: words are put together within a grammatical system to make meaning.

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Ferdinand du Saussure

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• To Saussure spoken language is superior to written

• The (western) alphabet only simulates the sounds of the language

Writing obscures language

Tigerr

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• Alphabetic writing is like a photograph– An automatic

record of the surface of language

Writing obscures language

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Jaques DerridaPhonetic writing does not exist

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Writing is not a secondary copy of speech

• Ideographic signs exist

• Graphemes

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Writing is not a secondary copy of speech

• Derrida is especially interested in word spacing

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Ellen Lupton

Typography … has moved writing away from speech

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Typografi is what language looks like:

Dramatize the intrusion of visual form into verbal content, the invasion of ”ideas” by graphic marks, gaps and differences.

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