| Title:
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ORALITY
THE POWER OF THE SPOKEN WORD |
| By: |
Graham Furniss |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£69.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1403934045 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781403934048 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE USA |
| Pub. date: |
21 September, 2004 |
| Edition: |
2004 ed. |
| Pages: |
188 |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
XII, 188 p. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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