Literacy in Traditional Societies
Jack Goody
Cambridge University Press, 1975
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The importance of writing as a means of communication in a society formerly without it, or where writing has been confined to particular groups, is enormous. It objectifies speech, provides language with a material correlative, and in this material form speech can be transmitted over space and preserved over time.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521290050
- ISBN-10
- 0521290058
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 1975
- Publication date
- 1975-12-04
- Pages
- 360
- Dimensions
- 156x229x24
- Weight
- 566