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Publication details [#2327]

Cooley, Ralph. 1979. Spokes in a wheel: A linguistic and rhetorical analysis of native American public discourse. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 5 : 552–557.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interlocutor role | public speech

Annotation

It is argued that in native American culture it is the role of a public speaker to share with his audience as much of his knowledge as he can about a subject, but it is the role of the listener to put that information together.