Orality and literacy
Subtitle: reflections across disciplines
By: edited by Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, and Natalia Khanenko-Frieson
Contributors: Khanenko-Friesen, Natalia
Publisher: University of Toronto Press; University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780802098269
Subjects: Oral tradition; Literacy; Language and culture
Description: "Through topics as diverse as Aboriginal Canadian societies, Ukrainian-Canadian narratives, and communities in ancient Greece, medieval Europe, and twentieth-century Asia, these cross-disciplinary essays reveal the powerful ways in which cultural assumptions, such as those about truth, disclosure, performance, privacy, and ethics, can affect a society's uses of and approaches to both the written and the oral. The fresh perspectives in Orality and Literacy reinvigorate the subject, illuminating complex interrelationships rather than relying on universal generalizations about how literacy and orality function."--Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.