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