Dávila, Luis Felipe2015-03-282015-03-2820132256-3911http://hdl.handle.net/10567/1326This paper approaches writing and society as phenomena. Three crucial points are studied: First. the importance of writing in cultural transmission processes, keeping in mind the other concomitant circulation ways of the tradition and the necessary learning processes for the diverse societies, plus the fundamental functions of writing. Second. the conservation and the divulgation, concerning the demands each one makes to writing. Third. the dialectics that can be established between the morphological and the hermeneutical analysis in the process of restituting the sense a text acquires for a particular society in a given moment.esCorporación Universitaria LasallistaFacultad de Ciencias Sociales y EducaciónLecturaEscrituraEscritura - TeoríasLibros y lecturaLenguaje escritoLenguaje y culturaLa mano desciende el río trazado Reflexiones sobre la escritura y la sociedadThe hand descends down the river´s path Reflections on writing and societyA mão desce o rio traçado Reflexões sobre a escritura e a sociedadeArticle