The DOI matches its Crossref record.
Orality and Literacy: 30th Anniversary Edition
Abstract
This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures offering a very clear account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology. In the course of his study, Walter J. Ong offers fascinating insights into oral genres across the globe and through time, and examines the rise of abstract philosophical and scientific thinking. He considers the impact of orality-literacy studies not only on literary criticism and theory but on our very understanding of what it is to be a human being, conscious of self and other. This is a book no reader, writer or speaker should be without.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cited by
Social Network Sites as Networked Publics: Affordances, Dynamics, and Implications
(2010) · A Networked Self · doi:10.4324/9780203876527-8 · Cited by 1,724
Hull, M. S. (2012) · Annual Review of Anthropology · doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.012809.104953 · Cited by 774
Illiterate to literate: behavioural and cerebral changes induced by reading acquisition
Dehaene, S., Cohen, L., Morais, J., & Kolinsky, R. (2015) · Nature Reviews Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nrn3924 · Cited by 716
Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics
boyd, D. (2017) · doi:10.31219/osf.io/edq6c · Cited by 560
Cunningham, A. E., & Stanovich, K. E. (1991) · Journal of Educational Psychology · doi:10.1037/0022-0663.83.2.264 · Cited by 493
Metadata
- Authors
- Ong, W. J.
- Venue
- Routledge eBooks
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2013-05-07
- OpenAlex
- W2282747551
- Cited by
- 1,441
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 59.39
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Orality and Literacy: 30th Anniversary Edition. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.4324/9780203103258
- The paper
- Ong, W. J. (2013). Orality and Literacy: 30th Anniversary Edition. Routledge eBooks. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203103258
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
