Shan K K itibaren Pervoye Stepanovo, Chuvashia, Rusija, 429921 itibaren Pervoye Stepanovo, Chuvashia, Rusija, 429921

How does being unable to store information anywhere besides the brain affect people and their langauge? Walter Ong attempts to answer this question in a very interesting and thought provoking way. This book has been monumental among people working with oral people groups. However, many (myself included) feel that he has over generalized the differences, and as all humans created this great divide, this great dichotomy. I think that society plays a much more important role in shaping the cognitive processes of humans, and literacy only plays a role in which the ideologies of literacy are entrenched in that particular society. For example, are people learning to read so they can read the Scripture (as was the case of Sweden), are they learning "literacy" just to pass high school, so they can get a good enough job. Also, what constitutes literacy and what are the different domains in which literacy can be used? I feel that this book is better for literary critics, than serioius linguists or anthropologists.