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Title An Introduction to oracy : frameworks for talk / edited by Jackie Holderness and Barbara Lalljee.

Publication Info. London : Cassell, 1998.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cassell education
Cassell education.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-235) and index.
Summary Oracy is a subject currently undergoing examination, due to the emphasis placed upon it by the National Curriculum. With an emphasis on practice, but embracing the major theoretical issues involved, this book contains numerous exercises, examining the issues surrounding oracy in schools. It describes the many ways in which teachers can encourage pupils to talk, using picture books, media-based discussions and English as a second language.
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Contents Figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the polarities of post-processual archaeology; PART I: ON THE CHARACTER OF ARCHAEOLOGY; Introduction; 2 Fields of discourse: reconstituting a social archaeology; 3 Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view; 4 The craft of archaeology; 5 Materialism and an archaeology of dissonance; PART II: INTERPRETATION, INFERENCE, EPISTEMOLOGY; Introduction; 6 Symbolism, meaning and context; 7 Hermeneutics and archaeology: on the philosophy of contextual archaeology; 8 Is there an archaeological record?
9 On ''heavily decomposing red herrings'': scientific method in archaeology and the ladening of evidence with theory10 Archaeology through the looking-glass; PART III: SOCIAL RELATIONS, POWER AND IDEOLOGY; Introduction; 11 The roots of inequality; 12 Conceptions of agency in archaeological interpretation; 13 Building power in the cultural landscape of Broome County, New York, 1880-1940; 14 Mortuary practices, society and ideology: an ethnoarchaeological study; 15 Redefining the social link: from baboons to humans; PART IV: FEMINISM, QUEER THEORY AND THE BODY; Introduction.
16 Homosexuality, queer theory and archaeology17 Power, bodies and difference; 18 The social world of prehistoric facts: gender and power in Palaeoindian research; 19 Bodies on the move: gender, power and material culture: gender difference and the material world; 20 Engendered places in prehistory; PART V: MATERIAL CULTURE; Introduction; 21 Interpreting material culture: the trouble with text; 22 The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process.
23 Material metaphor, social interaction and historical reconstructions: exploring patterns of association and symbolism in the Igbo-Ukwu corpus24 Interpreting material culture; PART VI: ARCHAEOLOGY, CRITIQUE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY; Introduction; 25 Can we recognise a different European past? A contrastive archaeology of later prehistoric settlements in southern England; 26 Discourses of identity in the interpretation of the past; 27 Toward a critical archaeology; 28 This is an article about archaeology as writing; PART VII: SPACE AND LANDSCAPE; Introduction.
29 The Berber house or the world reversed30 The temporality of the landscape; 31 Past practices in the ritual present: examples from the Welsh Bronze Age; 32 Monumental choreography: architecture and spatial representation in late Neolithic Orkney; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y.
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Subject Oral communication -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Great Britain.
Oral communication -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
Great Britain.
Oral communication.
English language -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Great Britain.
English language -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Holderness, Jackie.
Lalljee, Barbara.
Other Form: Print version: Introduction to oracy. London : Cassell, 1998 0304339490 (DLC) 98211624 (OCoLC)39686165
ISBN 9781441127167 (electronic book)
144112716X (electronic book)
0304339490
9780304339495
0304339504
9780304339501