Graham Furniss

Gebundenes Buch

Orality

The Power of the Spoken Word

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-3404-8
• 2004
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 341g
• ISBN-13: 9781403934048
• ISBN-10: 1403934045
• Artikelnr.: 21703500

Rezensionen

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