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Description for Orality
Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AS; CBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349517060
SKU
V9781349517060
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Ref
99-15
About Graham Furniss
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 Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa and Co-Editor of African Broadcast Cultures; Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature; and African Languages, Development and the State.
Reviews for Orality
'a thought-provoking view on the centrality of orality from a cross-cultural perspective.' - Luna Beard, Linguist List