Leseprobe
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Defining Literacy and Orality
1.1. Medial and Conceptual Dimensions
1.2. Literacy
1.3. Orality
1.3.1. Primary Orality
1.3.2. Secondary Orality
2. Characteristics of Oral Cultures
2.1. Additive rather than subordinative
2.2. Aggregative rather than analytic
2.3. Redundant or ‘copious’
2.4. Conservative or traditionalist
2.5. Close to the human life world
2.6. Agonistically toned
2.7. Empathetic and participatory rather than objectively distanced
2.8. Homeostatic
2.9. Situational rather than abstract
3. From Orality to Literacy
3.1. Precursors of Writing: Cave Paintings and Cuneiforms
3.2. Hieroglyphs
3.3. Greek Alphabet
4. Impact of Literacy on Society
4.1. Degree of Complexity
4.2. Archiving
4.3. Problem of Interpretation
4.4. Social Differentiation
Conclusion
Works Cited
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- Julia Trede (Autor:in), 2013, Orality and Literacy. The Significance of Literacy, München, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/511358
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