Browsing Oral tradition, volume 08, number 1 (March 1993) by Title "Activation and Preservation: The Interdependence of Text and Performance in an Oral Tradition"
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Activation and Preservation: The Interdependence of Text and Performance in an Oral Tradition
(1993-03)Very simply and generally, the function of written texts in our culture (and hence the source of the conduit metaphor) is the transmission of information. The writer of a text may have a multitude of reasons for writing ...