ABSTRACT
Among Jack Goody's manifold contributions are his fertile publications on literacy and orality. Enormously influential but (equally valuable) never uncontroversial, Goody's insights and claims have released a flood of publications from the 1960s to the present, supporting, challenging, and interacting with his positions. Much of the discussion has revolved around issues about literacy. This chapter focuses on the other end, the concept of “oral.”
