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Orality and Literacy: Epic Heroes of Human Destiny?

By Ruth Finnegan.

Published by The Learner Collection

Format	Price
Article: Print	$US10.00
Article: Electronic	$US5.00

The western myth of the centrality of language gives a misleadingly incomplete account of communication and of learning. ‘Orality’, ‘literacy’ and learning are multimodal.

Keywords:	Orality, Literacy, Myth, Language, Multimodality, Learning

International Journal of Learning, Volume 10. Article: Print (Spiral Bound), ISSN: ISSN 1447-9494, LC03-0127-2003. Article: Electronic (PDF File; 340.108KB), ISSN: ISSN 1447-9540, LC03-0127-2003.

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