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Orality : The Power of the Spoken Word
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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 literacy and the power of written communication.
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- ISBN-13: 9781403934048
- ISBN-10: 1403934045
- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Publish Date: September 2004
- Dimensions: 8.78 x 5.88 x 0.63 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.79 pounds
- Page Count: 188
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