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1
The Tradition of Western Literacy
  • the writing revolution

2
References
  • David Crowley and Paul Heyer. Communication in
    History. 4th ed. Sydney Pearson, 2003. Part 2,
    chapter 611.
  • W.H Edwards. An introduction to Aboriginal
    Societies. 2nd ed. Tuggerah, NSW Social Science
    Press, 2004, pp. 90-104

3
Overview
  • An introduction to the essays

4
Writing and Knowledge
  • writing systems gt revolution
  • initially, for economic and political purposes
  • next development writing represents speech.

5
Hieroglyphic Phonograms
  • Dodson, A 2001, The hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt,
    New Holland Publishers, London, Cape Town,
    Sydney, Auckland, p.39.

6
The first alphabet
  • Which civilization developed the first alphabet?
    And when?
  • the Phoenicians
  • approximately 1500BC

7
Drucker The Alphabet
  • How did the Greeks change the Phoenician
    alphabet?
  • added vowels
  • consonants became abstract sounds
  • What is the significance of the Greek alphabet?
  • resulted in the only writing style that has
    the capacity to represent the sounds of spoken
    language with such efficient and adaptable means
    (Drucker 200344)
  • root of all subsequent alphabets in the West.

8
Havelock The Greek Legacy
  • New literacy how did it change things?
  • challenged craft literacy
  • created the common reader through the
    implementation of schooling
  • affected memory and cognition
  • texts often transcribed earlier narratives from
    the oral tradition

9
Logan Writing and the Alphabet Effect
  • Is a literate culture superior to a non-literate
    one?
  • Literate cultures are often defined by their
    development of abstraction, analysis and
    classification (Logan 200360).
  • Oral cultures however, tend to be rich in
    metaphor, nonlinear creative thought, and memory
    (Crowley Heyer 200343)
  • The differences are cultural, not hierarchical
    (Crowley Heyer 200342-43)
  • Further discussion in module 8.

10
Ong Orality, Literacy, and Modern Media
  • psychodynamics of orality
  • how do cultures, that have not had the
    benefits/limitations of literacy, perceive the
    world?
  • cf Australian Aborigines
  • do you know what secondary orality is?

11
Eco A Medieval Library
  • Which book/film is this extract from?
  • The Name of the Rose.
  • When were the Middle Ages?
  • 1100AD1500AD (varies)
  • Which social group monopolised literacy?
  • Catholic Church
  • When did texts in the vernacular appear?
  • 1400AD
  • What other invention helped this?
  • paper

12
Burke Communication in the Middle Ages
  • oral nature of cultural life
  • place of memory in this culture
  • memory and the Ad Herennium
  • implications of literacy

13
FOCUS
  • Ong and Burke

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Ong, Orality, Literacy, and Modern Media
  • Psychodynamics of orality
  • Words possess great power (Ong 200365)
  • Influenced thought processes as well as methods
    of expression
  • Dependent on mnemonic patterns

15
Ong, Orality, Literacy, and Modern Media
Oral Literacy
Aggregative and collective Dissecting and analytical
Present, situational thinking Abstract thinking
Human experience Impersonal Objects
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Ong, Orality, Literacy, and Modern Media
  • Secondary orality
  • participatory mystique, its fostering of a
    communal snese, its concentration on the present
    moment, and even its use of formulas (Ong
    200369)
  • Permanently based in writing and print

17
Burke, The Tradition of Western Literacy
  • Documentation was rare
  • Mass illiteracy
  • Isolated, self-sufficient communities
  • Still an emphasis on oral traditions
  • Rhyme used to aid memorization
  • Ad Herennium the major mnemonic reference work
    of the Middle Ages (Burke 200377-78)

18
Burke, The Tradition of Western Literacy
  • Became obsolete with the advent of the printing
    press
  • Writing was considered a separate skill to
    reading
  • Economic growth increased demand for manuscripts
  • Availability of paper

19
Australian Perspective
  • Aboriginal culture rich in oral traditions
  • 270 different Aboriginal languages
  • Reflect intimate knowledge of the physical and
    social environments (Edwards 200496)
  • Concrete objects as opposed to abstract concepts

20
Ngaanyatjarra Gesture Speech
  • Edwards, W.H 2004, An introduction to Aboriginal
    societies, (2nd edn), Social Science Press,
    Tuggerah, NSW, p. 101

21
Aboriginal Cultures and Communication
  • Only 20 of 250 languages still regularly used

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