In this study of the social and psychological implications of literacy, sixteen 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 processe...

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Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 1991
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schlagworte:	Alfabetisme Alphabétisation - Congrès Cognition - Congrès Communication orale - Congrès Communication écrite - Congrès Mondeling taalgebruik Cognition > Congresses Literacy > Congresses Oral communication > Congresses Written communication > Congresses Mündliche Überlieferung Mündliche Literatur Mündliche Kommunikation Kulturvergleich Schriftlichkeit Konferenzschrift > 1987 > Toronto
Zusammenfassung:	In this study of the social and psychological implications of literacy, sixteen 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 road to rationality and modernity, the volume provides a more functional view of literacy. The articles place new emphasis on the relationship between speaking and writing and highlight the different ways in which people exploit the particular resources of speech and writing for special purposes, such as building communities, creating records, and specializing genres, such as prose fiction, enhancing private study and meditation, and enhancing the specialization and organization of knowledge.
Beschreibung:	Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Beschreibung:	XII, 288 S. graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:	0521392179 0521398509