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Title:

Ethiopia Between Orality and Literacy

Creator:

Wołk-Sore, Ewa

Abstract:

This article is an attempt at applying the theory of orality/literacy, which was formulated by Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord and developed further by Eric A. Haverlock, Walter J. Ong, Jack Goody andothers, to the process of the transition from orality to literacy in Ethiopia – an old African state where the spoken and written word co-existed for over two thousand years, without one dominating theother. This paper makes a careful examination of that what was spoken and what was written in Ethiopia and how this may shed new light on the theory of orality/literacy.

Publisher:

Pracownia Badań nad Tradycją Oralną

Contributor:

Zieliński, Karol. Red.   Torbus, Sławomir. Red.

Date issued:

2015-

Resource Type:

text

Format:

application/pdf

Identifier:

ISSN 2449–8181

DOI:

10.23734/QO.2015.1.1.131.146

Language:

eng   pol

Rights holder:

Copyright by Ewa Wołk-Sore