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Orality

The Power of the Spoken Word

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  1. Graham Furniss

    1. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: The Power of the Spoken Word

    • Graham Furniss
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Oral Communicative Moment

    • Graham Furniss
    Pages 12-42

  4. Cultural Parameters of Speech: Genre, Form, Aesthetics

    • Graham Furniss
    Pages 43-71

  5. Insertion into the Social — Constituting Audiences, Audience Cultures and Moving from the Private to the Public

    • Graham Furniss
    Pages 72-91

  6. Ideology and Orality

    • Graham Furniss
    Pages 92-130

  7. Academic Approaches to Orality

    • Graham Furniss
    Pages 131-163

  8. Concluding: On the Centrality of the Evanescent

    • Graham Furniss
    Pages 164-170

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 171-188
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About this book

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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'a thought-provoking view on the centrality of orality from a cross-cultural perspective.' - Luna Beard, Linguist List

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

    Graham Furniss

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Orality

  • Book Subtitle: The Power of the Spoken Word

  • Authors: Graham Furniss

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510111

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3404-8Published: 21 September 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51706-0Published: 01 January 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51011-1Published: 21 September 2004

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 188

  • Topics: Performing Arts, Linguistics, general

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