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.
| ISBN: | 9780230510111 |
| Publication date: | 21st September 2004 |
| Author: | Furniss, Graham |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Ebook (PDF) |