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Orality and Literacy - Reflections across Disciplines (Paperback)
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Orality and Literacy - Reflections across Disciplines (Paperback)
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Orality and Literacy investigates the interactions of the oral and
the literate through close studies of particular cultures at
specific historical moments. Rejecting the 'great-divide' theory of
orality and literacy as separate and opposite to one another, the
contributors posit that whatever meanings the two concepts have are
products of their ever-changing relationships to one another.
Through topics as diverse as Aboriginal Canadian societies,
Ukrainian-Canadian narratives, and communities in ancient Greece,
Medieval Europe, and twentieth-century Asia, these
cross-disciplinary essays reveal the powerful ways in which
cultural assumptions, such as those about truth, disclosure,
performance, privacy, and ethics, can affect a society's uses of
and approaches to both the written and the oral. The fresh
perspectives in Orality and Literacy reinvigorate the subject,
illuminating complex interrelationships rather than relying on
universal generalizations about how literacy and orality function.
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