Orality The Power of the Spoken Word
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
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Graham Furniss
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Orality
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Other books by Graham Furniss POETRY, PROSE AND POPULAR CULTURE IN HAUSA IDEOLOGY IN PRACTICE: Hausa Poetry as Exposition of Values and Viewpoints AFRICAN BROADCAST CULTURES: Radio in Transition (co-editor)
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POWER, MARGINALITY AND AFRICAN ORAL LITERATURE (co-editor) AFRICAN LANGUAGES, DEVELOPMENT AND THE STATE (co-editor)
Orality
Graham Furniss School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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The Power of the Spoken Word
© Graham Furniss 2004
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