Literacy and orality /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991. |
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| Description: | xii, 288 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Written communication -- Congresses. Literacy -- Congresses. Oral communication -- Congresses. Cognition -- Congresses Cognition. Literacy. Oral communication. Written communication. Conference papers and proceedings. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1139657 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Oral And Literate Aspects Of Culture And Cognition
- 1. The oral-literature equation a formula for the modern mind Eric Havelock
- 2. A plea for research on lay literary Ivan Illich
- 3. Oral metalanguage Carol Fleisher Feldman
- 4. Rational thought in oral culture and literate decontextualization
- 5. Cree literacy in the syllabic script
- 6. Literacy an instrument of Oppression
- Part II. Oral And Literate Forms Of Discourse
- 7. Lie it as it plays Chaucer becomes an author Barry Sanders
- 8. The invention of self autobiography and its forms
- 9. Literacy and objectivity the rise of modern science
- 10. Thinking through literacies
- Part III. Oral And Literate Aspects Of Cognition
- 11. Literacy its characterization and implications
- 12. The separation of words and the physiology of reading Paul Saenger
- 13. Linguists, literacy, and the intersionality of Marshall McLuhan's Western man
- 14. A neurological point of view on social alexia
- 15. Literacy as metalinguistic activity
- Author index
- Subject index