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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