Orality: The Power of the Spoken Word

by Graham Furniss

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1349517062

ISBN13:9781349517060

Release Date:January 2004

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:188 Pages

Weight:0.53 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Arts, Music & Photography Language Arts Performing Arts

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