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Oral communication

Here are entered works on speaking as a means of communication. Works on the oral production of meaningful sounds in language are entered under Speech.

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• Communication

• Speech

• Oral communication -- Periodicals
• Oral communication -- Religious aspects
• Oral communication -- Social aspects
• Conversation
• Conversation analysis
• Folklore -- Performance
• Oral interpretation
• Oral tradition
• Public speaking
• Speech processing systems

• Oral transmission
• Speech communication
• Verbal communication

• Oral Tradition (1986-) (full serial archives)

• Tradition Today: The E-Journal of the Centre for English Traditional Heritage (full serial archives)

• Quarterly Journal of Speech (partial serial archives)

• Ericsson Review (partial serial archives)
• Electrical Communication (partial serial archives)
• Bell Laboratories Record (partial serial archives)
• Bell Telephone Quarterly (partial serial archives)

• The Sermon Under Attack (Exeter, UK: Paternoster Press, c1983), by K. Runia (PDF files with commentary in the UK)
• The Ecology of Faith, by Joseph Sittler (HTML at religion-online.org)
• Papers on Preaching and Public Speaking: By a Wykehamist (London: Bell and Daldy, 1861), by George J. Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Post-Mediaeval Preachers: Some Account of the Most Celebrated Preachers of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries, With Outlines of Their Sermons, and Specimens of Their Style (London: Rivingtons, 1865), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ueber das Extemporiren der Predigten (in German; Hannover: Gebrudern Hahn, 1817), by Johann Heinrich Fritsch
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Yale Lectures on Preaching (New York, J. B. Ford and Co., 1872), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Christian Doctrine, by Saint Augustine of Hippo (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Dawn Coleman (PDF at Ohio State)

• God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (New York: The Viking Press, 1927), by James Weldon Johnson, illust. by Aaron Douglas and C. B. Falls
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at Yale
  • multiple formats at Google
• John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher (New York: F. H. Revell Co., c1908), by William E. Hatcher (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher, Compiled and Written by Himself (Portsea, UK: The author, ca. 1811), by John Jea (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of Rev. John Jasper, Pastor of Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., from His Birth to the Present Time, With His Theory on the Rotation of the Sun (Richmond, VA: R. T. Hill, 1884), by Edwin Archer Randolph (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Tropologia: A Key to Open Scripture Metaphors, in Four Books; To Which Are Prefixed, Arguments to Prove the Divine Authority of the Holy Bible, Together With Types of the Old Testament (1858), by Benjamin Keach
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Treasury of David, by C. H. Spurgeon (HTML at crosswalk.com)

• Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching (third edition, 1831), by Henry Ware (HTML at americanunitarian.org)

• Mein Kampf ums Recht: Eine Streitschift Gegen Vorstand und Repräsentanz der Jüdischen Gemeinde zu Berlin (in German; Berlin: Typ. Rosenthal, 1907), by Emil Cohn
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Preachers of the Italian Ghetto (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by David B. Ruderman (HTML at UC Press)

• Preachers of the Italian Ghetto (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by David B. Ruderman (HTML at UC Press)

• Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Dawn Coleman (PDF at Ohio State)

• Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech (with workbooks; Washington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016), by Rachel Hilary Brown (PDF files with commentary at ushmm.org)

• Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound (2007), ed. by Joy Damousi and Desley Deacon (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Rhetoric of Conversation: or, Bridles and Spurs for the Management of the Tongue, by George Winfred Hervey (page images at MOA)

• Conversations: Computer-Mediated Dialogue, Multilogue, and Learning (c1996), by Beth Williams Baldwin (HTML at Colorado State)

• In the Pride of the Moment: Encounters in Jane Austen's World (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by John A. Dussinger (PDF at Ohio State)

• All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus of Roterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things (second edition; London: Printed for J.J. and P. Knapton, et al., 1733), by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by N. Bailey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Decay of Lying, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
• Imaginary Conversations (5 volumes; Boston: Roberts Bros., 1881-1883), by Walter Savage Landor, contrib. by John Forster
  • first series (Classical dialogues): page images at Google; US access only
  • second series (Sovereigns and statesmen): page images at Google; US access only
  • third series (Literary men): page images at Google; US access only
  • fourth series (More literary men, famous women, miscellaneous): page images at Google; US access only
  • fifth series (More miscellaneous): page images at Google; US access only
• Imaginary Conversations (with notes; 6 volumes; London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1909), by Walter Savage Landor, ed. by Charles G. Crump, contrib. by John Forster
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6: multiple formats at archive.org
• Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection, by Walter Savage Landor (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Le Trésor de la Cité des Dames de Degré en Degré (in French), by Christine de Pisan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Heavenly Discourse (New York: Vanguard Press, c1927), by Charles Erskine Scott Wood, contrib. by Floyd Dell, illust. by Art Young and Hugo Gellert (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1601 (with commentary), by Mark Twain (HTML at archive.org)
• 1601, by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)

• Prejudice in Discourse: An Analysis of Ethnic Prejudice in Cognition and Conversation (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1984), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)

• Living With Stories: Telling, Re-Telling, and Remembering (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), ed. by William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• ...So They Understand...: Cultural Issues in Oral History (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), ed. by William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1996), by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Imagined States: Nationalism, Utopia, and Longing in Oral Cultures (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), ed. by Luisa Del Giudice and Gerald Porter
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2013), ed. by Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler, and Eleanor Wilkinson (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
• Living With Stories: Telling, Re-Telling, and Remembering (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), ed. by William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Stand Up, Speak Out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2011), by Jason S. Wrench, Anne Goding, Danette Ifert Johnson, and Bernardo A. Attias (PDF at saylor.org)
• The Art of Public Speaking (Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1915), by J. Berg Esenwein and Dale Carnegie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• How to Attract and Hold an Audience: A Practical Treatise on the Nature, Preparation, and Delivery of Public Discourse (New York: Hinds, Hayden and Eldredge, c1902), by J. Berg Esenwein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for Study (1910), ed. by Grenville Kleiser (Gutenberg text)
• The Complete Debater's Manual (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1902), by Charles Walter Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

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