Subject: [IFETS-Discuss] Conserve Language: Movement from Orality to Literacy
tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Date: Sun 21 May 2000 - 00:51:05 MEST
From: tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de Subject: [IFETS-Discuss] Conserve Language: Movement from Orality to Literacy Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 15:51:05 -0700
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Greetings IFETS People,
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Bob Leamnson wrote:
> Walter J. Ong titled his well-known book "Orality and Literacy" to
> emphasize that they are (were, before postmodernism) not the same. Oral
> literacy was, and should have remained, an oxymoron.
Yes, the book of 'Walter J. Ong', "Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing
of the Word" is an interesting one..--in the book..Walter Ong argues that
the major shift in human thinking lies between orality and literacy (a
much more significant shift than those between scribal, print, and electronic
forms of literacy). He argues that, as senses, hearing and speaking are
performative, belonging to the moment in which they occur. Seeing, on the
other hand, is much less time bound. Thus, while the speaking of a word
can never be repeated, but only imitated, the writing of a word becomes a
relatively permanent thing, readable over and over again, with no charge
to the written word itself. In this difference between sound and sight,
Ong finds the key to the wide-ranging differences between orality and
literacy.
thoughts??
Sincerely
Arun Tripathi
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