I'd be interested in hearing your references & / or further thoughts on literacy & orality (as I understand the drift or your comments below, that's the ideological opposition).
Patrick
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 5:41 PM Subject: Re: From Wendell Berry's Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community
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> Mark Jones wrote:
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> > THE JOY OF
> > SALES RESISTANCE
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> > Dear Reader,
> > This is a book about sales resistance.
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> > VII Literacy does not involve knowing the meanings of words, or learning
> > grammar, or reading books.
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> Literacy (however defined) certainly does *not* involve learning grammar.
> For almost three centuries the purpose of studying grammar has been to
> make a travesty of literacy.
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> Literacy *need* not involve reading books though, at the present time,
> it *probably* does. Any definition of literacy that treats Homer or
> Leadbelly as lacking literacy is itself lacking.
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> "Learning the meaning of words" is simply not very intelligible standing
> by itself.
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> Carrol
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