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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cassell educationPublication details: London : Cassell, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781441127167
  • 144112716X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Introduction to oracy.DDC classification:
  • 372.62/2044/0941 22
LOC classification:
  • P95.4.G7 I58 1998eb
Other classification:
  • 17.42
Online resources:
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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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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-235) and index.

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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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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