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Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. 1982. Some of my favorite writers are literate: The mingling of oral and literate strategies in written communication. In Tannen, Deborah F., ed. Spoken and written language: Exploring orality and literacy. Ablex Publishing Company. pp. 239–260.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English

Annotation

L. argues that the loss of literacy is not the same as loss of culture. She illustrated a noticeable shift in our society from a literacy-based model of ideal human communication to one based on the oral mode of discourse.