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Landmark essays on speech and writing / edited by Peter Elbow

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New York ; London : Routledge, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
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311 pages ; 25 cm.
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Elbow, Peter

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Machine generated contents note: SECTION 1 HISTORICAL STORIES ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT AND EFFECTS OF ALPHABETIC LITERACY -- 1.Origins and Forms of Writing (2007) / Michael Erard -- 2.The Emergence of a Literate Rhetoric in Greece (2006) / Richard Leo Enos -- 3.The Consequences of Literacy (1963) / Ian Watt -- 4.Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought (1986/2001) / Walter J. Ong -- 5.Narratives of Literacy (1999) / Beth Daniell -- 6.Literacy and the Writing Voice: The Intersection of Culture and Technology in Dictation (2004) / Lee Honeycutt -- SECTION 2 ANALYSES OF HOW SPEECH AND WRITING RELATE TO EACH OTHER -- 7.Writing and Speaking (2007) / Camilla Vasquez -- 8.Spoken and Written Modes of Meaning (1987) / M.A.K. Halliday -- 9.The Shifting Relationships Between Speech and Writing (1985) / Peter Elbow -- 10.Punctuation and the Prosody of Written Language (1988) / Wallace Chafe -- 11.Relative Focus on Involvement in Oral and Written Discourse (1985) / Deborah Tannen -- 12."The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice": African American Student Writers and the NAEP (1999) / Geneva Smitherman -- SECTION 3 EXPLORATIONS OF SOME FEATURES OF SPEECH WITH A SPECIAL RELEVANCE TO WRITING -- 13.Historical Description and the Ideology of the Standard Language (2000) / Jim Milroy -- 14.Intonation: A Virtue for Writing at the Root of Everyday Speech (2012) / Peter Elbow -- APPENDIX WRITERS TRYING TO CREATE THE ILLUSION OF SPEECH: A SELECTION OF BRIEF PASSAGES -- Introduction -- from "To A Mouse. On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough" (1785) / Robert Burns -- from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) / Mark Twain -- from "The Death of the Hired Man" (1917) / Robert Frost -- from Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) / Zora Neale Hurston -- "chaloookyu eensai" (1972/2002) / Jozuf Hadley (bradajo) -- from "A Scolding from My Father" (1995) / Juliet Kono -- A link to a passage from Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) / David Mamet -- from "Aunt Roachy Seh" (1993) / Louise Bennett -- from How Late It Was, How Late (1998) / James Kelman -- from Talking Heads (2008) / Alan Bennett -- from "Medieval Business English" (2001) / Laura Wright.
Summary
"Classical rhetoric was originally all about speech; then it took an interest in writing. We are at a kind of mirror moment now. The present field of "composition and rhetoric" has been preoccupied with writing for the last fifty or more years, but finally people are looking again at speech and how it relates to writing. At this moment, then, when we are inheritors of research showing that writing can be thought of as different and yet not different from speech. In this volume, leading speech and writing expert, Peter Elbow, gathers a selection of classic essays that show the main streams of thinking that have gone on about speech and writing. Through the interdisciplinary essays included, he invites readers to think critically about the relationship between speech, writing, and our notion of literacy"--
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9780415641685 (hbk)
0415641683 (hbk)
9780415641692 (pbk)
0415641691 (pbk)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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