literacy

One other reason humanists read their papers outloud (and probably the main one, affectively) is because one reason one becomes a humanist is one loves the sound of words, not just their content. This is an addendum to an earlier posting, "Why Humanists Read Their Papers": http://www.hastac.org/node/1204

 

Why is the book the standard of literacy? Books for the masses are a relatively new phenomenon. It's not they were handed down to Moses with the tablets. Yet declining literacy is equated with declining book readership. It's not the same thing.