Literacy and Orality (Hardcover)

Preface; Introduction David R. Olson and Nancy Torrance; 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 J. Peter Denny; 5. Cree literacy in the syllabic script Jo Anne Bennett and John W. Berry; 6. Literacy: an instrument of Oppression D. P. Pattanayak; 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 Jerome Bruner and Susan Weisser; 9. Literacy and objectivity: the rise of modern science David R. Olson; 10. Thinking through literacies Jeffrey Kittay; Part III. Oral And Literate Aspects Of Cognition: 11. Literacy: its characterization and implications R. Narasimhan; 12. The separation of words and the physiology of reading Paul Saenger; 13. Linguists, literacy, and the intersionality of Marshall McLuhan's Western man Robert J. Scholes and Brenda J. Willis; 14. A neurological point of view on social alexia Andre Roch Lecours and Maria Alice Parente; 15. Literacy as metalinguistic activity David R. Olson; Author index; Subject index.