John Miles Foley
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Professor of English and Classical Studies and Director of the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.
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Literacy, capacity to communicate using inscribed, printed, or electronic signs or symbols for representing language. Literacy is customarily contrasted with orality (oral tradition), which encompasses a broad set of strategies for communicating through oral and aural media. In real world…
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