Overview

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.

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Author:   Graham Furniss
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2004 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9781403934048

ISBN 10:   1403934045
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   21 September 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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'a thought-provoking view on the centrality of orality from a cross-cultural perspective.' - Luna Beard, Linguist List

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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.

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