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Is Our Society Becoming Post-l
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iterate?
Thousands of years have passed since our culture invented an alphabet to allow spoken words to be permanently recorded. This 'great leap' from orality to literacy had many consequences that will be discussed here. However, many other technologies have come into existence since the alphab ....
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....ormed through the telling of stories and the carrying out of rituals. There is no separation of the 'knower from the known' (Havelock 1976). The myths and folktales of the village storyteller do not have a script, this would be an oral version of literacy, they are recreated anew with each performance. There simply is no 'text' apart from each individual incarnation of each tale. The performer of a tale is combining an act of creation with an act of transmission. His primary work is to tran.... |
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