Documents concerning the first workshop on "Orality versus literacy: concepts, methods and data", held in Siena, on 24-26 Sep 1992: correspondence on the organisation of the workshop, programme, list of participants.
Papers: "The inadequacy of writing as a representation of thought: examples from medieval culture" by M. T. Clanchy; "Epigrammatic considerations about some spoken language structures that written language does not accept (and vice versa)" by Raffaele Simone; "Les unités: langue écrite, langue orale by Claire Blanche-Benveniste; "Oralité médiale et conceptionelle dans les cultures écrites" by Peter Koch; "Un élément de l’héritage latin: la notion d’orthographe" by F. Desbordes; "Orality/literac, languages and alphabets: examples of the Jewish people" by Colette Sirat; "Ecriture et notation" by Roy Harris.

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