Processing Varieties in English : An Examination of Oral and Written Speech Across Genres.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Oral and Written Narrative -- Personal Narrative: The Boy in the Mirror -- Historical Narrative: The Legend of Gunninute the Outlaw -- Mythic Narrative: The Legend of Astace -- Conclusion -- 3 Oral and Written Description -- Process Description: Cattle Driving -- Conclusion -- 4 Oral and Written Exposition -- Popular Exposition: The Definition of a Lover -- Conclusion -- 5 Oral and Written Instruction -- Popular Instruction: How to Make Yogurt and Yogurt Cheese -- Conclusion -- 6 Oral and Written Argument -- Socio-Political Argument: The New Cold War -- 7 Conclusion -- Appendix: Texts Used -- The Boy in the Mirror/Oral Account of Martin Starret -- The Boy in the Mirror/Written Account of Martin Starret -- The Story of Gunninute/Oral Account of Martin Starret -- The Story of Gunninute/Written Account of Martin Starret -- Astace (Carrier Creation Myth)/Oral Account of Martin Starett -- Astace: The Indian/Written Account of Martin Starret -- Cattle Driving/Oral Description -- Cattle Driving/Written Description -- from The Politics of Love/Oral Exposition -- from Loving Each Other/Written Exposition -- Yogurt and Yogurt Cheese/Oral Instruction -- Yogurt and Yogurt Cheese/Written Instruction -- Noam Chomsky and Fred Halliday in Conversation -- from The Making of the Second Cold War/Halliday -- from "Towards a New Cold War"/Chomsky -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
This study of oral and written speech in English examines media as processing varieties and looks at their interaction with genre, demonstrating the non-neutrality of oral and written speech as language varieties.
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English language -- Variation. Speech acts (Linguistics). Written communication. Oral communication. Literary form.