The Written World: Introduction -- 1 Literate Conceptions and Conceptions of Literacy -- 1 On Literacy and the Myth of Literal Meaning -- 2 The Impact of Literacy on the Conception of Language: The Case of Linguistics -- 3 Literacy Practices and Literacy Myths -- 4 Language Practices and the Visibility of Language. Reflections on the Great Divide in the Light of Ethiopian Oral Traditions -- 5 Computer Literacy and Procedural Knowledge -- 6 Writing, Time and Memory in the Perspective of Socio-cultural Evolution -- 2 Literate Practices and Human Cognitive Repertoires -- 7 Interpreting Texts and Interpreting Nature: The Effects of Literacy on Hermeneutics and Epistemology -- 8 Learning to Read — Some Possible Consequences for Thinking -- 9 Entrance into the “World of Knowledge” — Pre-school Children’s Conceptions of Learning -- 10 Towards an Anatomy of Academic Discourse: Meaning and Context in the Undergraduate Essay -- 11 A Text and Its Meanings: Observations on How Readers Construe What Is Meant from What Is Written -- 12 Insight into Understanding -- Author Index.

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