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Orality

The Power of the Spoken Word

Graham Furniss author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave USA

Published:21st Sep '04

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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: 9781403934048

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 410g

188 pages

2004 ed.