Literacy and orality
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Preface Introduction David R. Olson and Nancy Torrance Part I. Oral And Literate Aspects Of Culture And Cognition: 1. The oral-literature equation: a formula for the modern mind Eric Havelock 2. A plea for research on lay literary Ivan Illich 3. Oral metalanguage Carol Fleisher Feldman 4. Rational thought in oral culture and literate decontextualization J. Peter Denny 5. Cree literacy in the syllabic script Jo Anne Bennett and John W. Berry 6. Literacy: an instrument of Oppression D. P. Pattanayak Part II. Oral And Literate Forms Of Discourse: 7. Lie it as it plays: Chaucer becomes an author Barry Sanders 8. The invention of self: autobiography and its forms Jerome Bruner and Susan Weisser 9. Literacy and objectivity: the rise of modern science David R. Olson 10. Thinking through literacies Jeffrey Kittay Part III. Oral And Literate Aspects Of Cognition: 11. Literacy: its characterization and implications R. Narasimhan 12. The separation of words and the physiology of reading Paul Saenger 13. Linguists, literacy, and the intersionality of Marshall McLuhan's Western man Robert J. Scholes and Brenda J. Willis 14. A neurological point of view on social alexia Andre Roch Lecours and Maria Alice Parente 15. Literacy as metalinguistic activity David R. Olson Author index Subject index.