Spoken and written discourse
Subtitle: a multi-disciplinary perspective
By: by Khosrow Jahandarie.
Series: Contemporary studies in international political communication
Publisher: Ablex Pub.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stamford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
Subjects: Written communication.; Writing -- History.; Speech.
First sentence: This volume presents a systematic, reasonably exhaustive, and critical review of the existing scientific literature on the differences between speech and writing and, particularly, the cognitive and cultural implications of these differences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-418) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 1.  The Oral Theory  (Milman Parry, Albert Lord, The Oral Theory); title: 2. Eric Havelock: The Alphabet's Dominion  (The Greek "Invention" of the Alphabet - A Democratic Script - Writing and Memory - The Alphabet's Representational Ability - The Alphabet's Liberating Power - Literacy, Prose, and Didacticism - The Alphabet and Abstraction - Disagreements with Parry and Lord - Caveats); title: 3. Harold Innis: Writing, Space and Time  (Central Concepts - History of Communication and the History of Civilization - Comparison and Evaluation); title: 4. Marshall McLuhan : Print as the Fall  (Influences - Media as Extensions of Senses - Phonetic vs. Non-Phonetic Scripts - Print Culture vs. Manuscript Culture - Psychological Consequences of Print - Dawn of a New Orality - Appraisal and Comparison); title: 5. Walter Ong: Writing and Human Consciousness  (Primacy of the Oral - Attributes of Oral Mentality - Tenacity of Oral Culture - The Literate Mindset - Impact of Print - Electronic Media and "Secondary Orality" - Comparisons - Ambiguity and Ambivalence); title: 6. Jack Goody: Writing, Culture, and Cognition  (Rerjection of Old Cultural Dichotomies - Goody and Linguistic Relativity - Over-Emphasis on the Uniqueness of the Greek Alphabet - Other Writing Systems - Literacy and Scientific Thought - Tables, Lists, and New Category Sets - Writing, Formalization, and Logic - Writing, Law, and Bureaucracy - Literacy and Religion - Writing, Individualism, and Alienation - Restricted Literacy - Comparisons - Criticism); title: 7. David Olson: Development of the Literate Mind  (Utterance vs. Text - Locus of Meaning in Writing and Speech - Historical Consequences of Literacy - Literacy and Cognitive Development - Literacy and Metalanguage - Changes in Olson's Positions - Relationships - Olson's Critics); title: 8. Structural Differences between Speech and Writing: The Linguistic Evidence  (Prosodic vs. Punctuated - Evanescent vs. Permanent - Contextualized vs. Autonomous - Involved vs. Detached - Redundant vs. Concise - Natural vs. Taught - Other-Paced vs. Self-Paced - Transparent vs. Dense - Fuzzy vs. Precise - Statistical Reductionism - Conclusion); title: 9. Processing Differences between Speech and Writing: The Psychological Evidence  (Comprehension of Speech and Writing - Retention Differences between Speech and Writing - Modality Differences in Comprehension and Retention of Connected Discourse - Conclusion); title: 10. Writing in Time: The Historical Evidence  (The Archaic Greece and Alphabet's Arrival - The Classical Period - The Case of Plato - The Hellenistic and Roman Periods - Judaism and Christianity - The Early Middle Ages - The Late Middle Ages - Printing and After - Conclusion); title: 11. Cognitive Consequences of Speech and Writing in Cultural Psychology  (Vygotsky and Luria - Greenfield - Scribner and Cole - Berry and Bennett - Others - Conclusion); title: 12. Anthropological Dissent  (Finnegan - Street - Akinnaso - Bloch - Lewis - Besnier - Weighing the Anthropological Evidence - Conclusion); title: Conclusions; title: Notes; title: References; title: Author Index; title: Subject Index