Publications
Publication details [#2326]
Cook-Gumperz, Jenny and John J. Gumperz. 1981. From oral to written culture: The transition to literacy. In Whiteman, Marcia Farr, ed. Writing: The nature, development, and teaching of written communication, vol. 1: Variation in writing: Functional and linguistic-cultural differences. L. Erlbaum. pp. 89–109.
Annotation
C. and G. suggest that there is a threshold in the symbolization of experience which has to be crossed between societies that have written symbols for transmitting and ordering knowledge and information and those that don't.