Research Catalog

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

Subjects

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Malaiisch
• Malaysia
• Indonesia
• Littérature malaise > Histoire et critique
• Tradition orale > Malaisie
• Tradition orale > Indonésie
• Mündliche Literatur
• Oral tradition > Indonesia
• Oral tradition > Malaysia
• Malay literature > History and criticism

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