Orality
Tuesday, June 8, 2004
SUPPOSE there were no TV, suppose all utterance was printed as morning news, and political campaigns were not broadcast orally...
But forget all that, the era of new orality has arrived, with our modern word technologies: the radio, telephone, television. Must we now be prepared to admit once again, as the Latin saying goes: `the heard sound will disappear, but the written letter will stay'? Could it be that people speak so as to be quickly
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