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Orality

The Power of the Spoken Word

Graham Furniss author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:1st Jan '04

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Oral communication is quite different in its spontaneity and communicative power from textual and visual communication.Oral communication is quite different in its spontaneity and communicative power from textual and visual communication. Culturally-bounded expectations of ways of speaking and individual creativity provide the spark that can ignite revolution or calm the soul. This book explores, from a cross-cultural perspective, the centrality of orality in the ideological processes that dominate public discourse, providing a counterbalance to the debates that foreground literacy and the power of written communication.

'a thought-provoking view on the centrality of orality from a cross-cultural perspective.' - Luna Beard, Linguist List

ISBN: 9781349517060

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Weight: unknown

188 pages

1st ed. 2004