| Description |
xii, 288 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Note |
Papers presented at a conference held June 1987. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Written communication -- Congresses.
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Written communication. |
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Literacy -- Congresses.
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Literacy. |
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Oral communication -- Congresses.
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Oral communication. |
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Cognition -- Congresses.
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Cognition. |
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Communication écrite -- Congrès. |
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Alphabétisation -- Congrès. |
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Communication orale -- Congrès. |
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Cognition -- Congrès. |
| Indexed Term |
Oral communication Related to Written communication |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Olson, David R., 1935-
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Torrance, Nancy.
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| ISBN |
0521398509 paperback |
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0521392179 hardback |
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