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Walter J. Ong

Researcher at Saint Louis University

Publications -  114
Citations -  11891

Walter J. Ong is an academic researcher from Saint Louis University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Orality & Literacy. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 114 publications receiving 11584 citations. Previous affiliations of Walter J. Ong include Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences & University of Warwick.

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Orality and literacy : the technologizing of the word

TL;DR: Hartley as discussed by the authors discusses the psychodynamics of orality of language in the context of the oral past and present, and the evolution of the human mind from oral to written language.
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Orality and literacy

Walter J. Ong
TL;DR: Ong's classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought as mentioned in this paper.
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The Writer's Audience is Always a Fiction

TL;DR: The way readers fictionalize themselves shifts throughout literary history: Chaucer, Lyly, Nashe, Hemingway, and others furnish cases in point as discussed by the authors, and some fictionalizing of audience occurs in oral performance, too, but in the live interaction between narrator and audience there is an existential relationship as well: the oral narrator modifies his story in accord with the real fatigue, enthusiasm, or other reactions of his listeners.
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The presence of the word : some prolegomena for cultural and religious history

Walter J. Ong
TL;DR: In this paper, a religious philosopher's exploration of the nature and history of the word argues that the word is initially and always sound, that it cannot be reduced to any other category, and that sound is essentially an event manifesting power and personal presence.