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Can I read Orality : The Power of the Spoken Word on EtoBox?

Orality : The Power of the Spoken Word by Graham Furniss, GRAHAM FURNISS is a performing arts available to read on EtoBox.

What is Orality : The Power of the Spoken Word about?

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 commu

Who reads Orality : The Power of the Spoken Word?

It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.

Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.

Author
Graham Furniss, GRAHAM FURNISS
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published
2004
Language
EN
ISBN
9780230510111
Category
performing arts
Subjects
Linguistics, Sociology, Literary Fiction
Updated
2026-03-25

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