Literacy and Orality

By: David R. Olson (Editor), Nancy Torrance (Editor)

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Paperback | 25 November 1991

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The debate on the social and psychological implications of literacy enters a new stage with the publication of this volume. Distinguished scholars provide a sustained and detailed examination of the relations between orality and literacy, the traditions based on them, the functions served by them, and the psychological and linguistic processes recruited and enhanced by them. By shedding the romantic view that literacy is the royal road to rationality and modernity, the volume provides a more functional view of literacy. It places a new emphasis on the relationship between speaking and writing, and highlights the different ways in which people exploit the particular resources of speech and writing for special purposes such as building community, creating records, specialising genres such as prose fiction, enhancing private study and meditation, and enhancing the specialisation and organisation of knowledge.

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Non-Fiction Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Communication Studies Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Language & Linguistics Linguistics Literacy Education Educational Psychology

Preface
Introduction
Oral And Literate Aspects Of Culture And Cognition
The oral-literature equation a formula for the modern mind Eric Havelock
A plea for research on lay literary Ivan Illich
Oral metalanguage Carol Fleisher Feldman
Rational thought in oral culture and literate decontextualization
Cree literacy in the syllabic script
Literacy an instrument of Oppression
Oral And Literate Forms Of Discourse
Lie it as it plays Chaucer becomes an author Barry Sanders
The invention of self autobiography and its forms
Literacy and objectivity the rise of modern science
Thinking through literacies
Oral And Literate Aspects Of Cognition
Literacy its characterization and implications
The separation of words and the physiology of reading Paul Saenger
Linguists, literacy, and the intersionality of Marshall McLuhan's Western man
A neurological point of view on social alexia
Literacy as metalinguistic activity
Author index
Subject index
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