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The Relevance of Symbolic Belief
I cited both of Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson‘s books on relevance (their 1986 Relevance: Communication and Cognition and their 2012 Meaning and Relevance in Chapter 4, so I was quite interested to see Sperber briefly mentioned in the New Yorker’s story on the phenomenology of misinformation, in connection with his distinction between “factual” and Continue reading
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Walter Ong: The Word Ongoing
I worked in marketing at Cornell University Press in Ithaca while completing my dissertation years ago, and one book on our backlist there happened to be Walter Ong’s 1977 Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture, which is one of the lesser-known of his several works on “the word” (his Continue reading
About THIS SITE
This site is intended to provide additional information related to my book Keywords In and Out of Context, published in Springer’s Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services series.
I am Betsy Van der Veer Martens, professor emerita at the University of Oklahoma’s School of Library & Information Studies, and my most recent article is “On Thresholds: Signs, Symbols, and Significance” in the Journal of Documentation.
Keywords In and Out of Context 