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A full hearing : orality and literacy in the Malay world
- Title
- A full hearing : orality and literacy in the Malay world / Amin Sweeney.
- Author
- Sweeney, Amin.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1987.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 338 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 315-324.
- Contents
- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Predecessors and presuppositions -- 2. Two eighteenth-century observers -- 3. Displacement and development -- 4. The language of the oral specialist and the effects of writing -- 5. Schematic language in everyday speech -- 6. Write as you speak : audiences and abstractions -- 7. The adding mode in stylized composition -- 8. The adding mode : nonstylized storytelling -- 9. Oral orientation in written composition -- Conclusion -- Glossary.
- ISBN
- 0520059107
- 9780520059108
- LCCN
- 86025042
- OCLC
- ocm14411952
- 14411952
- SCSB-1707499
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library