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Orality and Literacy
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- Title: Orality and Literacy: Epic Heroes of Human Destiny?
- Author(s): Ruth Finnegan
- Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
- Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
- Series: The Learner
- Journal Title: The International Journal of Learning: Annual Review
- Keywords: Orality, Literacy, Myth, Language, Multimodality, Learning
- Volume: 10
- Issue: 1
- Date: April 09, 2005
- ISSN: 1447-9494 (Print)
- ISSN: 1447-9540 (Online)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9494/CGP/v10/58847
- Citation: Finnegan, Ruth. 2005. "Orality and Literacy: Epic Heroes of Human Destiny?." The International Journal of Learning: Annual Review 10 (1): 0-0. doi:10.18848/1447-9494/CGP/v10/58847.
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Abstract
The western myth of the centrality of language gives a misleadingly incomplete account of communication and of learning. ‘Orality’, ‘literacy’ and learning are multimodal.
