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xii, 288 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
The oral-literature equation : a formula for the modern mind / Eric Havelock -- A plea for research on lay literacy / Ivan Illich -- Oral metalanguage / Carol Fleischer Feldman -- Rational thought in oral culture and literate decontextualization / J. Peter Denny -- Cree literacy in the syllabic script / Jo Anne Bennett and John W. Berry -- Literacy : an instrument of oppression / D.P. Pattanayak -- Lie it as it plays : Chaucer becomes an author / Barry Sanders -- The invention of self : autobiography and its forms / Jerome Bruner and Susan Weisser -- Literacy and objectivity : the rise of modern science / David R. Olson -- Thinking through literacies / Jeffrey Kittay -- Literacy : its characterization and implications / R. Narasimhan -- The separation of words and the physiology of reading / Paul Saenger -- Linguists, literacy, and the intensionality of Marshall McLuhan's Western man / Robert J. Scholes and Brenda J. Willis -- A neurological point of view on social alexia / Andre Roch Lecours and Maria Alice Parente -- Literacy as metalinguistic activity / David R. Olson.
edited by David R. Olson and Nancy Torrance.
Papers presented at a conference held June 1987.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.