Literacy and orality / edited by David R. Olson and Nancy Torrance.

Other author Olson, David R., 1935-
Other author Torrance, Nancy.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Descriptionxii, 288 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Subjects
Written communication--Congresses.
Literacy--Congresses.
Oral communication--Congresses.
Cognition--Congresses.

Contents The oral-literature equation : a formula for the modern mind / Eric Havelock -- A plea for research on lay literacy / Ivan Illich -- Oral metalanguage / Carol Fleischer Feldman -- Rational thought in oral culture and literate decontextualization / J. Peter Denny -- Cree literacy in the syllabic script / Jo Anne Bennett and John W. Berry -- Literacy : an instrument of oppression / D.P. Pattanayak -- Lie it as it plays : Chaucer becomes an author / Barry Sanders -- The invention of self : autobiography and its forms / Jerome Bruner and Susan Weisser -- Literacy and objectivity : the rise of modern science / David R. Olson -- Thinking through literacies / Jeffrey Kittay -- Literacy : its characterization and implications / R. Narasimhan -- The separation of words and the physiology of reading / Paul Saenger -- Linguists, literacy, and the intensionality of Marshall McLuhan's Western man / Robert J. Scholes and Brenda J. Willis -- A neurological point of view on social alexia / Andre Roch Lecours and Maria Alice Parente -- Literacy as metalinguistic activity / David R. Olson.
Local noteLittle-313687--305131020738X
General notePapers presented at a conference held June 1987.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 90001692
ISBN0521392179 (hardback)
ISBN0521398509 (pbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks P211 .L725 1991 ✔ Available Place Hold