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Orality and Literacy

[First published in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric (ed. T. O. Sloane; Oxford 2001) 532-538. In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{532|533}” indicates where p. 532 of the printed version ends and p. 533 begins.] The concept of orality stems from ethnographic descriptions of oral poetry in particular and of oral traditions in general. A foundational work is The… Read more