title: The Interface between the Written and the Oral (Studies in Literacy, the Family, Culture and the State)
author:  Jack Goody 
description: The interfacing between oral and literate modes of communication is traced within given societies, between cultures without writers and within the linguistic life of an individual.
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  ORALITY AND LITERACY
  Profound changes in thought processes and in personality and
  social structures were brought about by the invention of writing
  and
  the
  transformation from one
  stage of consciousness
  to
  another: from primary oral cultures to literate ones. Walter Ong
  here surveys and interprets the extensive work done during the
  last few decades, by himself and
  others, on
  the
  differences
  between orality and literacy.
  Thought and
  expression
  in
  oral
  cultures
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