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Havelock, Eric A. – 1981
The development of literacy is traced in this paper to promote the thesis that dependence on literacy education naturally leads to two competing cultures, one oral and one literate. Events in the development of the Greek alphabet are traced to advance the argument, and the differences between cultures dependent on Greek and non-Greek writing…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Diachronic Linguistics
