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This document provides an extensive bibliography on the topic of orality and literacy. It is divided into sections on theoretical studies, historical studies, and oral poetry. The theoretical studies section lists influential works that examine the differences between spoken and written language. The historical studies section outlines scholarship on the transition from oral to written communication in various time periods and cultures. Finally, the oral poetry section focuses on the tradition of oral poetic forms from ancient to modern times.

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This document provides an extensive bibliography on the topic of orality and literacy. It is divided into sections on theoretical studies, historical studies, and oral poetry. The theoretical studies section lists influential works that examine the differences between spoken and written language. The historical studies section outlines scholarship on the transition from oral to written communication in various time periods and cultures. Finally, the oral poetry section focuses on the tradition of oral poetic forms from ancient to modern times.

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Orality and Literacy

Preliminary Reading W.J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 515 and 3156. Suggested Further Reading Theoretical studies * D. Abercrombie, Conversation and Spoken Prose, in Abercrombie, Studies in Phonetics and Linguistics (London: Oxford University Press, 1965), pp. 19. D. Biber, Variation across Speech and Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988). G. Brown and G. Yule, Teaching the Spoken Language: an Approach based on the Analysis of Conversational English (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983). T.J. Farrell, Differentiating Writing from Talking, College Composition and Communication, 29 (1978): 34650. L. Hemphill, Orality and literacy in sociolinguistics, in R. Mesthrie, ed., The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). E.R. Kintgen, B.M. Kroll, and M. Rose, eds., Perspectives on Literacy (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988), esp. pp. 5770 and 17589. D. Lazere, Orality, Literacy, and Standard English, Journal of Basic Writing, 10 (1991): 8798. * M. Nystrand, ed., What Writers Know: the Language, Process, and Structure of Written Discourse (New York: Academic Press, 1982), esp. pp. 24059. D. Olson, The World on Paper: the Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). * W.J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (London: Routledge, 2002, 2nd edn.; 2012, 3rd edn., with foreword and afterword by John Hartley). N. Page, Speech in the English Novel (London: Macmillan, 1988 (2nd edn.)). * M. Stubbs, Language and Literacy: The Sociolinguistics of Reading and Writing (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980). * D. Tannen, ed., Spoken and Written Language: Exploring Orality and Literacy (Norwood, N.J: Ablex, 1982), esp. pp. 116. Historical studies R. Chartier, Reading Matter and Popular Reading: From the Renaissance to the Seventeenth Century, in G. Cavallo and R. Chartier, eds., A History of Reading in the West, trans. L.G. Cochrane (Oxford: Polity Press, 1999), pp. 26983. P. Fielding, Writing and Orality: Nationality, Culture, and Nineteenth-Century Scottish Fiction (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996). A. Fox, Oral and Literate Culture in England 15001700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). M.W. Ferguson, Didos Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003). 1

B.R. Jonsson, Oral Literature, Written Literature: The Ballad and Old Norse Genres, in J. Harris, ed., The Ballad and Oral Literature (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991), pp. 13970. D.F. McKenzie, SpeechManuscriptPrint, in P.D. McDonald and M.F. Suarez, eds., Making Meaning: Printers of the Mind and Other Essays (Amherst: U. of Massachusetts Press, 2002), pp. 23758. W. Nelson, From Listen, Lordings to Dear Reader, University of Toronto Quarterly, 46.2 (19767): 11024. W.J. Ong, Oral Residue in Tudor Prose Style, in Ong, Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971), pp. 2347. R. Palmer, The Sound of History: Songs and Social Comment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988). A. Shell, Oral Culture and Catholicism in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). K. Thomas, The Meaning of Literacy in Early Modern England, in G. Baumann, ed., The Written Word: Literacy in Transition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986). R. Thomas, Literacy and Orality in the Ancient World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992). Oral Poetry: from rhapsodes to rappers T.A. DuBois, Lyric, Meaning, and Audience in the Oral Tradition of Northern Europe (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006). * A. Easthope, Poetry as Discourse (London: Routledge, 1983; 2003 (new edn.)), esp. Ch. 5 on ballad poetry. R.H. Finnegan, Oral Poetry: its Nature, Significance and Social Context (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992). ____________, ed. The Penguin Book of Oral Poetry (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982). J.M. Foley, How to Read an Oral Poem (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002). J. Kinsley, ed., The Oxford Book of Ballads (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982). A.B. Lord, The Singer of Tales (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960 et seq.). J.D. Niles, Beowulf: The Poem and Its Context (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983). I. and P. Opie, eds., The Singing Game (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985). E. Pihel, A Furified Freestyle: Homer and Hip Hop, Oral Tradition, 11 (1996): 24969. D. Wehmeyer-Shaw, An Interview with DJ Romeo: Rap Music, Oral Tradition, 8 (1993): 22546. M.L. West, Rhapsodes, in S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth, eds., The Oxford Classical Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996). P. Zumthor, Oral Poetry: An Introduction, trans. K. Murphy-Judy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990). You may also find this site useful, for further reading on oral literature and linguistics: http://www.oraltradition.org/bibliography/
Dr Stamatakis c.stamatakis@ucl.ac.uk

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