The Interface Between the Written and the OralCambridge University Press, 9 juil. 1987 - 328 pages Whilst the fundamental significance of the spoken language for human interaction is widely acknowledged, that of writing is less well known, and in this wide-ranging series of essays Jack Goody examines in depth the complex and often confused relationship between oral and literate modes of communication. He considers the interface between the written and the oral in three cultures or societies with and without writing, and that within the linguistic life of an individual. Specific analyses of the sequence of historical change within writing systems, the historic impact of writing upon Eurasian cultures, and the interaction between distinct oral and literate cultures in West Africa, precede an extensive concluding examination of contemporary issues in the investigation, whether sociological or psychological, of literacy. A substantial corpus of anthropological, historical and linguistic evidence is produced in support of Goody's findings, which form a natural complement to his own recently published study of The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society. |
Table des matières
The historical development of writing | 3 |
Protowriting | 8 |
Early writing systems | 18 |
The development of phonetic transcription | 38 |
The alphabet | 40 |
The unity and diversity of alphabets | 49 |
The implications of graphic systems | 53 |
THE INFLUENCE OF EARLY FORMS OF WRITING | 57 |
The interface between the sociological and the psychological analysis of literacy | 211 |
Vygotsky and the psychological analysis of Vai literacy | 214 |
Varieties of script and varieties of tradition | 217 |
Logic and logical reasoning | 219 |
Mediated and unmediated implications | 221 |
Literacy effects in the Vai study | 223 |
The shift from abilities to skills | 226 |
Memory and writing | 234 |
Literacy and achievement in the Ancient World | 59 |
Africa Greece and oral poetry | 78 |
Memory and verbatim memory | 86 |
Oral composition and oral transmission | 91 |
Heroic societies and the epic | 96 |
Oral composition and oral transmission the case of the Vedas | 110 |
WRITTEN AND ORAL CULTURES IN WEST AFRICA | 123 |
The impact of Islamic writing on oral cultures | 125 |
Oral recitations | 127 |
Writing and magicoreligious activity | 129 |
Time and space | 132 |
Literacy and the nonliterate the impact of European schooling | 139 |
Postscript | 147 |
Alternative paths to knowledge in oral and literate cultures | 148 |
Traditional knowledge among the LoDagaa | 149 |
The growth of knowledge | 155 |
Three modes of acquiring knowledge | 156 |
Literacy | 157 |
Two paths to knowledge as social control | 161 |
Conclusions | 164 |
Memory and learning in oral and literate cultures the reproduction of the Bagre | 167 |
Verbatim memory in oral cultures | 174 |
Schools and memory | 182 |
Conclusion | 189 |
Writing and formal operations a case study among the Vai with Michael Cole and Sylvia Scribner | 191 |
The writings of Ansumana Sonie | 196 |
WRITING AND ITS IMPACT ON INDIVIDUALS IN SOCIETY | 209 |
Schools | 236 |
The experimental method | 244 |
Culture and cognition | 245 |
Abilities capacities and skills | 246 |
Cultural resources and individual attainment | 251 |
Psychological tests and practical action | 252 |
The internalexternal problem | 253 |
Language and writing | 258 |
Linguists and the written language | 261 |
Three dimensions of the written and the spoken | 262 |
The written and spoken registers compared | 263 |
Grammar and rules | 265 |
Individual performance in the two registers | 266 |
Divergences between the written and oral registers | 270 |
Crossword puzzles | 272 |
Other grapholinquistic techniques of cognitive operation | 274 |
Lists and categories | 275 |
Reordering information | 276 |
Arithmetical operations | 277 |
The syllogism | 278 |
Writing and diglossia | 279 |
Class and register | 283 |
Recapitulations | 290 |
Notes | 301 |
Bibliography | 306 |
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ability abstract activity Adam Parry alphabet appears Arabic Aramaic associated Bagre Canaanite century BC ceremonies changes chapter cognitive communication context cuneiform diglossia discussion earlier early Ebla English epic evidence example formal Ghana Gonja Goody graphic Greek Greek alphabet Homeric implications important individual influence invention involved Islam kind knowledge later learning linguistic lists literacy literate cultures literature LoDagaa logical logograms logographic mawlid means memory Mesopotamia mode Muslim myth non-literate oral cultures oral societies particular Phoenician phonetic pictorial poems possible problem procedures Proto-Canaanite psychological Qu'ran recall recitation records registers relation religious role schools scribes Scribner and Cole script Semitic signs situation skills social Sonie Sonie's speaker specific speech spoken structure suggested Sumerian syllabic syllogism system of writing tasks transmission Uruk Vai script Vedas verbal verbatim versions visual West Africa writing systems written language written tradition Zapotec