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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9781138843608
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (297 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
    Parallel Title: Print version The Oral Style (RLE Folklore)
    DDC: 398
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: In this book, first published in 1990, Edgard Sienaert and Richard Whitaker offer the first English translation of Marcel Jousse's crucially important work, Le style oral. As the translators observe, this study fired the imagination of contemporary intellectuals in Paris soon after its publication and influenced the work of many. In this book, Jousse provides a thorough and detailed theoretical account of the compositional style of oral, as opposed to literate, authors, showing that the antithetical, balancing, formulaic quality of that style is deeply rooted in the psychological and even phys
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; General Editor's Foreword; Translators' Preface; Introduction to the 1981 edition; Marcel Jousse on "Scientific Discovery"; Foreword; PART ONE THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF ORAL STYLE; I The energetic explosion and the psycho-physiology of gesture; II Intervals between energetic explosions - physiological rhythm; III Reflex gesticulation and the mimicry of reception; IV The spontaneous revivification of past gestures
    Description / Table of Contents: V The voluntary semiological revivification of mimic gesturesVI Laryngo-buccal semiological gesticulation; VII The instinctively concrete character of semiological gesticulation; VIII The propositional gesture; IX Ethnic mental dispositions and propositional gestures: the psychology of translation; PART TWO THE ORAL STYLE; X The automatic repetition of a propositional gesture: parallelism; XI Rhythmic oral style; XII The instinctive mnemonic employment of rhythmic schemas; XIII Oral style, a ""living press""; XIV Oral composers; XV Mnemonic faculties in oral style milieux
    Description / Table of Contents: XVI Mnemotechnical devices within the rhythmic schemaXVII Mnemotechnical devices within the recitative; XVIII Mnemotechnical devices within a recitation; CONCLUSION; Notes; Index of Proper Names; Index of Technical Terms; Bibliography
    Note: Description based upon print version of record
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