Oral and Written Culture

"In recent years, some fundamental differences have been discovered between oral cultures and the methods of using information and verbalizing this information in cultures deeply affected by the habit of writing; the results of these discoveries have been very surprising. Regarding the way of thinking and expression in literature, philosophy, science, and even in the oral communication of literate people, When we realized that many of the qualities we accept without questioning arise not from the nature of human beings themselves, but from the possibilities that writing technology offers to our consciousness, we have had to re-examine our concept of human identity.
The subject of my book is the differences between oral and written culture. More precisely, since the reader of this or any book already knows the content of written culture sufficiently, our subject is first the way of thinking and expressing thoughts of oral culture (which may seem strange to us literate people at first), and then the literate person, which we will always examine by quoting oral culture because it originates from oral culture. It is a way of thinking and expression..."



Number of Pages: 232

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing

Prepared by: Meltem Ahiska

First Printing Year: 2014

Number of Pages: 232

Language Turkish