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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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Description
ix, 338 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Malay literature > History and criticism
  • Oral tradition > Malaysia
  • Oral tradition > Indonesia
  • Malay literature
  • Oral tradition
  • Mündliche Literatur
  • Malaiisch
  • Tradition orale > Indonésie
  • Tradition orale > Malaisie
  • Littérature malaise > Histoire et critique
  • Indonesia
  • Malaysia
  • Malaiisch
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