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Orality: the Power of the Spoken Word

Furniss, Graham

Authors

Graham Furniss



Abstract

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.

Citation

Furniss, G. (2004). Orality: the Power of the Spoken Word. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510111

Book Type Authored Book
Publication Date Jan 1, 2004
Deposit Date Jun 17, 2008
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
ISBN 9781403934048
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510111



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