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Peer reviewedIllich, Ivan – Interchange, 1987
The evolution of lay literacy, the pervasive set of assumptions taken for granted by those who participate in a literate society, is traced from the 12th century. Research on the forms and assumptions of lay literacy over the change from an oral to a written to a computer society is urged. (MT)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Intellectual History, Literacy, Oral Language
Peer reviewedConnors, Robert J. – Written Communication, 1985
Examines the slow growth of a body of knowledge about how information can best be communicated without necessary reference to overt persuasion, from Henry Day's "Art of Rhetoric" through contemporary explanatory rhetoric. (FL)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Philosophy, Intellectual History, Oral Language
Peer reviewedMcLuhan, Marshall; Logan, R. K. – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1977
Traces the history of the alphabet; cites recent developments in the field of neurophysiology that tend to support the hypothesis that the alphabet produced a situation favorable for the development of logic, rational thought, and science. Also comments on the reemergence of the oral tradition. (GT)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Communications
