Orality

The Power of the Spoken Word
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-349-51706-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 264 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Furniss, Graham

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction The Oral Communicative Moment Cultural Parameters of Speech: Genre, Form, Aesthetics Insertion into the Social: Constituting Audiences, Audience Cultures and Moving from the Private to the Public Ideology and Orality Academic Approaches to Orality Concluding: On the Centrality of the Evanescent Appendix A: Sir Geoffrey Howe's Resignation Speech, 1990 Appendix B: Hubert Humphrey's Speech to the 1948 Democratic National Convention References Index

Über Autor(innen)

GRAHAM FURNISS is Professor of African Language Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. He is the author of and Co-Editor of ; ; and .