Orality: The Power of the Spoken Word

by Graham Furniss

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349517062
• ISBN13: 9781349517060
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"