Gilbert, What is the full Scale?
And which cultures would you see as 'Oral(preferred) Cultures'? I would suppose that mediterranean people are more 'oral(preferred)' than the Germans (well, it's all also "average" thinking and there are always others of course). Having a very rich body-language acompanying the words seems to be an good indicator for oral(preferred) or even oral(nearly-only). Oral preferred would then mean, not a question of abilities, they dominate both layers of world construction, but really a cultural 'decision' Trying to explore your idea of getting differenciations into "Oral": I met many people in ex-oral(only)-cultures who have learned to read and write in school, but it stays a thin layer, sometimes looking like a simulation. A good indicator is, when people are absolutely unable to interprete a text as orientation for action (e.g. a user manual). They may read: "first you make a step forward" and then ask: What do I have to do? (It is not only oral(preferred) And I met lots of people who learned to read and write, even in my very literate background culture (Austria/big city) but do really not understand the possibilities of working with texts. Sometimes they are very similar to the above category. Well there exists a term for that: "secondary illiterates" I want to come back to "oral (only)" in your definition. I am so impressed about a thing that the definition by non-literate or illiterate does not get: Ex 1: People here around me in Sofala/Mozambique dominate from their early years 4-5 languages and do not think they are something special. But they could not understand, that I am not able to speak Italien, Czech, Hungarian, Croatian, Slowenian: "How can you be a good neighbour, without speaking their language?" (Very good question, I think) Ex 2: Dona Helena, who worked as cook and cleaning person in our house, she is from the people of Mandao, and absolutely non-literate, came back from the market and was regularly able to tell the-whole-story: Whom she met, how their family situation is, what she bought, how much, which money(notes or coins) she gave), which ones she received, what the current "fofoca/rumors" are... and this resulted in giving me incidentally the costs and the expenses for about 20 -50 articles she bought. That is one of the reasons, why I am so eager to work with them: I do not really want to pay the full price we have to pay for being members of the group of Gutenberg's heirs. Bernd ----- [email protected], on 19.09.2002 at 16:15:11 (GMT/UT + 02:00) On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 05:28:57 -0500, Gilbert Brenson-Lazan wrote: >Kluckhohn-Strodtbeck Scale * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
