The interface between the written and the oral

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Title:	The interface between the written and the oral
Author:	Goody, Jack
Year:	1987
Pages:	328
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in literacy, family, culture and the state
City of publisher:	Cambridge
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISBN:	0521332680; 0521337941
Geographic terms:	world West Africa
Subjects:	writing systems reading traditional society traditions
Abstract:	In this series of essays the author 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 major contexts: that internal to given societies, that between cultures or societies with and without writing, and that within the linguistic life of the 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 (specifically among the LoDagaa of northern Ghana and the Vai of Liberia), precede a concluding examination of contemporay issues in the investigation, whether sociological or psychological, of literacy. A substantial corpus of anthropological, historical and linguistic evidence is produced in support of the author's findings.