[MD] words/time

[MarshaV]

Greetings,

Marsha:
I found an interesting book which may provide some interesting information pertaining to the split between the social level and the intellectual level.  How the fleeting oral tradition became a more substantial, objectified written tradition. 

Orality and Literacy 
        by Walter J. Ong

Book Description:
"This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures offering a very clear account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.

"In the course of his study, Walter J. Ong offers fascinating insights into oral genres across the globe and through time, and examines the rise of abstract philosophical and scientific thinking. He considers the impact of orality-literacy studies not only on literary criticism and theory but on our very understanding of what it is to be a human being, conscious of self and other.

"This is a book no reader, writer or speaker should be without."


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415281296/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00 




Marsha 


p.s.  Sorry, I didn't mean to misrepresent the text.