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Ablex Pub.
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English
Pages
446

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Written communication, Writing, Speech, History, Writing, history

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First Sentence

"This volume presents a systematic, reasonably exhaustive, and critical review of the existing scientific literature on the differences between speech and writing and, particularly, the cognitive and cultural implications of these differences."

Table of Contents

1. The Oral Theory (Milman Parry, Albert Lord, The Oral Theory)
2. Eric Havelock: The Alphabet's Dominion (The Greek "Invention" of the Alphabet - A Democratic Script - Writing and Memory - The Alphabet's Representational Ability - The Alphabet's Liberating Power - Literacy, Prose, and Didacticism - The Alphabet and Abstraction - Disagreements with Parry and Lord - Caveats)
3. Harold Innis: Writing, Space and Time (Central Concepts - History of Communication and the History of Civilization - Comparison and Evaluation)
4. Marshall McLuhan : Print as the Fall (Influences - Media as Extensions of Senses - Phonetic vs. Non-Phonetic Scripts - Print Culture vs. Manuscript Culture - Psychological Consequences of Print - Dawn of a New Orality - Appraisal and Comparison)
5. Walter Ong: Writing and Human Consciousness (Primacy of the Oral - Attributes of Oral Mentality - Tenacity of Oral Culture - The Literate Mindset - Impact of Print - Electronic Media and "Secondary Orality" - Comparisons - Ambiguity and Ambivalence)
6. Jack Goody: Writing, Culture, and Cognition (Rerjection of Old Cultural Dichotomies - Goody and Linguistic Relativity - Over-Emphasis on the Uniqueness of the Greek Alphabet - Other Writing Systems - Literacy and Scientific Thought - Tables, Lists, and New Category Sets - Writing, Formalization, and Logic - Writing, Law, and Bureaucracy - Literacy and Religion - Writing, Individualism, and Alienation - Restricted Literacy - Comparisons - Criticism)
7. David Olson: Development of the Literate Mind (Utterance vs. Text - Locus of Meaning in Writing and Speech - Historical Consequences of Literacy - Literacy and Cognitive Development - Literacy and Metalanguage - Changes in Olson's Positions - Relationships - Olson's Critics)
8. Structural Differences between Speech and Writing: The Linguistic Evidence (Prosodic vs. Punctuated - Evanescent vs. Permanent - Contextualized vs. Autonomous - Involved vs. Detached - Redundant vs. Concise - Natural vs. Taught - Other-Paced vs. Self-Paced - Transparent vs. Dense - Fuzzy vs. Precise - Statistical Reductionism - Conclusion)
9. Processing Differences between Speech and Writing: The Psychological Evidence (Comprehension of Speech and Writing - Retention Differences between Speech and Writing - Modality Differences in Comprehension and Retention of Connected Discourse - Conclusion)
10. Writing in Time: The Historical Evidence (The Archaic Greece and Alphabet's Arrival - The Classical Period - The Case of Plato - The Hellenistic and Roman Periods - Judaism and Christianity - The Early Middle Ages - The Late Middle Ages - Printing and After - Conclusion)
11. Cognitive Consequences of Speech and Writing in Cultural Psychology (Vygotsky and Luria - Greenfield - Scribner and Cole - Berry and Bennett - Others - Conclusion)
12. Anthropological Dissent (Finnegan - Street - Akinnaso - Bloch - Lewis - Besnier - Weighing the Anthropological Evidence - Conclusion)
Conclusions
Notes
References
Author Index
Subject Index

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-418) and indexes.

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Stamford, Conn
Series
Contemporary studies in international political communication

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
302.2/24
Library of Congress
P211 .J28 1999, P211.J28 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 446 p;
Number of pages
446

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31478M
ISBN 10
1567504264, 1567504272
LCCN
99011986
OCLC/WorldCat
40660172
Goodreads
2122449
1302708

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