Oral Literacies : When Adults Read Aloud (Hardcover)

List of figures and tables Preface Acknowledgements Part 1 Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Reading Aloud in Britain Today (RABiT) Project Chapter 3 The Questionnaire: surveying contemporary reading aloud Chapter 4 Mass Observation Chapter 5 The interviews and recordings Part 2 Chapter 6 Family, friends & lovers: community, domesticity, intimacy and mediation Chapter 7 Working life Chapter 8 Religion Chapter 9 Literary life: production, performance, experience and the wordhord Chapter 10 Aloud alone Chapter 11 Oral reading and education Chapter 12 Conclusion Index