Deborah Tannen

David R. Olson

Jack Goody

Professor of Linguistics Deborah Tannen, PhD

Wallace L. Chafe

Shirley Brice Heath

Sandra A. Thompson

Georgia M. Green

Angela Hildyard

Charles N Li

Patricia M. Clancy

Estudio sobre la estructura del discurso y el crecimiento de la comunicación a través de los modos hablados y escritos.

Exploring Orality and Literacy

Spoken and Written Language

Cambridge University Press

Nancy Torrance

Literacy is an important concern of contemporary societies. This book offers a comprehensive survey of recent efforts to understand the nature of written language and its role in cognition and in social and intellectual life. The authors represent a wide range of disciplines - cognitive psychology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, education, history and philosophy - and address a wide range of questions. Is literacy a decisive factor in historical and cultural change? Does it alter the mental and social lives of individuals? If so how and via what mechanisms? Does learning to read and write change children's speech, thought or orientation to language? What are children and adults learning when they acquire literate skills? Are there differences - linguistic, psychological and functional - between speaking and writing? And are there differences between oral and written languages?

Literacy, Language and Learning:The Nature and Consequences of Reading and Writing

Angela Hildyard

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