The paper discusses the cognitive processes of modern readers who interpret ancient Greek and Latin texts. It argues philologists who suggest conjectures and supplements use the cognitive processes of reading and ‘misreading’. Precisely by not reading what is written, but what they expect to read, they can find the correct text, that is missing or corrupted in the manuscripts that preserve it. Philologists combine this intuitive element with expert strategies
Cognitive science, conjectures and papyri: priming, cloze tests and intuition
BATTEZZATO LUIGI
2019
Abstract
The paper discusses the cognitive processes of modern readers who interpret ancient Greek and Latin texts. It argues philologists who suggest conjectures and supplements use the cognitive processes of reading and ‘misreading’. Precisely by not reading what is written, but what they expect to read, they can find the correct text, that is missing or corrupted in the manuscripts that preserve it. Philologists combine this intuitive element with expert strategiesFile in questo prodotto:
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