Table summarising Chapter 3: Some psychodynamics of orality
oral | literate |
| words as actions | words as objects |
| formulaic | unstructured/multiple |
| additive | subordinative |
| harmonising | analytic/dissective |
| redundant | sparse |
| narrative | facts & lists |
| episodic/thematic | chronological |
| ever-present | past and future looking |
| amnesic | hypermnemonic |
| ’savage mind’ | rationality |
| animistic | objective |
| holistic | linear |
| conservative | progressive |
| unreflective | introspective |
| social/public | individual |
| empathetic & participatory | objectively distanced |
| situational/situated | abstract |
| contextual | self-contained |
| restricted code | elaborated code |
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