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Literacy Glossary
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF LITERACY - GLOSSARY
tripartite
- shared by or involving three parts
"The accepted tripartite divisions of the formal study of mankinds past...(p.1)
Use of the term in this sentence is to show both the division and connectedness of the development of man when thinking about his relation to literacy/language.
Weltanschauung (p.2)
- wide worldview or perception of
a people, family or person.
The use of this German phrase by the authors speaks to the ways in which language plays an instrumental role in developing the worldview of any give society.
homeostatic
- the ability of a system to adjust to its internal environment.
"The social function of memory
...can thus be seen as the final stage
of what may be called the homeostatic organization of the cultural tradidition in non-literate society" (p.4).
This term taken from
biology brings forth an interesting metaphor exampling the relationship between organic life and human linguistic agency
- Branislaw Malinowski (p. 3)
was a Polish Anthropologist
influential in structural functionalist sociology mentioned in this text to bring his anthropological examples and findings into relation with the way "illiterate tribes" used and developed (or didn't) language.
cuneiform (p. 12)
- is one of the earliest known forms of written
expression.
One of the examples taken from ancient egyptian
culture to discuss the development and use of literacy
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