Using Documents: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Document Theory

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Using Documents

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Document Theory

Edited by: Gerald Hartung , Frederik Schlupkothen and Karl-Heinrich Schmidt

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110780888

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Using Documents presents an interdisciplinary discussion of human communication by means of documents, e.g., letters. Cultural scientists, together with researchers from media science and media engineering, analyze questions of document modeling, including a document’s contexts of use, on the basis of cultural theory. The research also concerns the debate on the material turn in the fields of cultural studies and media studies.

Looking back on existing work, texts on written communication by the philosopher and sociologist Georg Simmel and by an interdisciplinary French group of authors under the pseudonym Roger T. Pédauque are taken as a starting point and presented afresh.

A look ahead to the future is also attempted. Whereas the modeling (including technical modeling) of documents has to date largely been limited to the description of output forms and specific content, the foundations are laid here for including documents’ contexts of use in models that are grounded in cultural theory.

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Gerald Hartung, Frederik Schlupkothen and Karl-Heinrich Schmidt, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Part I: Introduction
Preface Gerald Hartung, Frederik Schlupkothen and Karl-Heinrich Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Document Theory Roswitha Skare Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Part II: Using Documents
The Document as Cultural Form Gerald Hartung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
From Manuscript to Printed Book Ulrich Johannes Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Documenting as a Communicative Form Cornelia Bohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Legibility and Viewability Frederik Schlupkothen and Karl-Heinrich Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
A Semiotic Perspective on the Ontology of Documents and Multimodal Textuality John A. Bateman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Part III: Background
Simmel’s Excursus on Written Communication Gerald Hartung and Karl-Heinrich Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Document: Form, Sign, and Medium, as Reformulated by Digitization Roger T. Pédauque Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of literary and cultural studies
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 262
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 28
- Coloured Illustrations: 21
Keywords: Documents; document use; Georg Simmel; Roger T. Pédauque

eBook

Published: September 20, 2022
ISBN: 9783110780888

Hardcover

Published: September 20, 2022
ISBN: 9783110780772