The civilization of illiteracy
By: Mihai Nadin.
Publisher: Dresden University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Dresden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 881
Subjects: Literacy -- Social aspects.; Sociolinguistics.; Technology and civilization.; Technology -- Social aspects.; Computers and literacy.; Social history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 771-868) and index.
Errata slip inserted.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Literacy in a changing world; title: Book I. The chasm between yesterday and tomorrow; title: The epitome of the civilization of illiteracy; title: Book II. From signs to language; title: From orality to writing; title: Orality and writing today: what do people understand when they understand language?; title: The functioning of language; title: Language and logic; title: Book III. Language as mediating mechanism; title: Literacy, language and market; title: Language and work; title: Literacy and education; title: Book IV. Language and the visual; title: Unbounded sexuality; title: Family: discovering the primitive future; title: A God for each of us; title: A mouthful of mircrowave diet; title: The professional winner; title: Science and philosophy-more questions; title: Art(ifacts) and aesthetic processes; title: Libraries, books and readers; title: The sense of design; title: Politics: There was never so much beginning; title: Theirs not to re