num_pages: 376
description: Dennis Tedlock presents startling new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all areas of the spoken arts. Moreover, he reveals how the categories and concepts of poetics and hermeneutics based in Western literary traditions cannot be carried over in their entirety to the spoken arts of other cultures but require extensive reevaluation.
language: English
title: The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation
titlecomplete: The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation (Conduct and Communication)
ratings_count: 20
publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press