Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures offering a very clear account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.
Read more
In the course of his study, Walter J. Ong offers fascinating insights into oral genres across the globe and through time, and examines the rise of abstract philosophical and scientific thinking. He considers the impact of orality-literacy studies not only on literary criticism and theory but on our very understanding of what it is to be a human being, conscious of self and other.
This is a book no reader, writer or speaker should be without.
Liked Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society Shares language, theory, nonfiction -
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man Shares media, philosophy, nonfiction -
The Printing Press as an Agent of Change Shares history, media, linguistics -
How to Do Things with Words Shares linguistics, language, philosophy
