Orality, Literacy and Memorization: Priestly Education in Contemporary South India

"orality in Literacy": Listening to Indigenous Writing

Resume One of the characteristics of Indigenous writing around the world may be the use of oral features as deliberate techniques in literary production. The author considers the work of Patricia Grace (of New Zealand), Sally Morgan (Australia) and Marie Annharte Baker (from Canada) in these terms. Une des caractéristiques des oeuvres indigènes autour du monde peut être l'usage des traits oraux...

The Unexpurgated Text of “ IQ , Orality , and Literacy ”

concepts out of one's language through interacting with other language users. In a monumental philological study, Havelock (1978) traced the historical development of The Greek concept of justice from its shadow in Homer to its substance in Plato, and what Vygotsky discerned as the movement from concrete conceptualization to abstract thinking in children is but a telescoped and transformed reca...

Introduction: The European Fairy-Tale Tradition between Orality and Literacy

In Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition Ruth Bottingheimer proposes to correct the historical narrative of the emergence of the fairy tale in Europe and to recognize "Straparola's role as an originator in the history of modern fairy tale" (Bottingheimer 2002:3). Giovanni Francesco Straparola (c. 1480-c. 1557) is not exactly an unknown figure in folktale history.1 Hi...

E- Texts: The Orality and Literacy Issue Revisited

Literacy and Education in Ireland

Recent media attention has focused on the low ranking of Ireland in a major international study on literacy. In this paper we examine the dataset used in these studies to consider the reason behind the low ranking. We find significant evidence that the underlying reason for this is the low level of formal schooling of older individuals, possibly due to the lack of free secondary schooling. More...