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This article relies on a leading line of anthropological research on the socio-cultural implications of orality in Iran. The analyses reveal that the prevalence of oral language in Iran is associated with a wide range of implications, such as redundancy, emotionality, ambiguity, high-context culture traits, the lack of critical thinking, the gap between speech and writing, the importance of poetry, restricted scientific and technical knowledge, religiosity, traditionalism, the centrality of negotiating, old-fashioned entrepreneurship, and authoritarian governance and leadership. The article examines the practical consequences of orality on Iranian culture, social relations, and politics.

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Life and Works of Alexander Francis Cowan -- Bibliography of Alexander Cowan -- Introduction -- Witches' Words -- 1 Oral Transfer of Ideas about Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Norway -- 2 St Helena and Love Magic: From the Spanish Inquisition to the Internet -- Words on Trial -- 3 The Power of the Spoken Word: Depositions of the Imperial Chamber Court: Power, Resistance, and 'Orality' -- 4 Tracking Conversation in the Italian Courts -- Preaching the Word -- 5 Tears for Fears: Mission Preaching in Seventeenth-Century France - a Double Performance -- 6 Powerful Words: St Vincent Ferrer's Preaching and the Jews in Medieval Castile -- 7 'A Most Notable Spectacle': Early Modern Easter Spital Sermons -- Word on the Street -- 8 Orality and Mutiny: Authority and Speech amongst the Seafarers of Early Modern London -- 9 'A Blabbermouth Can Barely Control His Tongue': Political Poems, Songs, and Prophecies in the Low Countries (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries) -- 10 Proverbs and Princes in Post-Reformation England -- Gossip and Gossipers -- 11 The Meanings of Gossip in Sixteenth-Century Venice -- 12 Gossip and Social Standing in Celestina: Verbal Venom as Art -- Prayer, Teaching, and Religious Talk -- 13 Oral Rites: Prayer and Talk in Early Modern France -- 14 The Seducer's Tongue: Oral and Moral Issues in Medieval Erotodidactic Schooltexts -- 15 Preaching God's Word in a Late-medieval Valencian Convent: Isabel de Villena, Writer and Preacher -- 16 Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index

Languages have their own distinctive styles of argumentation. It seems some languages like Arabic and Persian have a preference for using the "oral" features of parataxis, formulaicity and repetition as persuasive devices in argumentation. The purpose of this article is first to examine these "oral" characteristics in Persian argumentation, and then to tie together the two areas of research: the study of orality and the study of metadiscourse. The article claims that these oral characteristics in Persian are means of gaining rhetorical effectiveness. Therefore, they should be considered as metadiscourse devices used to create a bond between writer and reader.

For the debate on orality, literacy and memorization, India provides some
striking evidence. In his comparative analysis
of 'oral aspects of scripture', Graham gives the Hindu tradition
a special place, for the 'ancient Vedic tradition
represents the paradigmatic instance of scripture as spoken, recited word' (Graham 1987:68). The Vedas,
the oldest texts of Hinduism, have been transmitted orally for three thousand years
or more, despite the very early implementation of writing, and it is the Vedas as recited from memory by
Brahmans that are alone authoritative. A corollary of the spoken word's
primacy is that in teaching the Vedas and other texts, although 'written texts have been
used', 'a text without a teacher to teach it directly and orally to a pupil is only so many useless leaves or pages' (ibid.: 74).

Witches' words : Oral transfer of ideas about witchcraft in seventeenth-century Norway / Liv-Helene Willumsen -- St Helena and Love Magic: From the Spanish Inquisition to Internet / Susana Gala Pellicer -- Words on Trial : The Power of the Spoken Word : Depositions of the Imperial Chamber Court: Power, Resistance -- And 'orality'/ Marcus Bahr -- Tracking conversation in the Italian courts / Thomas V. Cohen -- Preaching the Word : Tears for Fears: Mission Preaching in Seventeenth-Century France; a Double Performance / Anne Régent-Susini -- Powerful Words: St Vincent Ferrer's Preaching and the Jews in Medieval Castile / Carolina Losada -- A Most Notable Spectacle': Early Modern Easter Spital Sermons / Sonia Suman -- Word on the Street: Orality and Mutiny: Authority and Speech amongst the Seafarers of Early Modern London / Richard J. Blakemore -- 'A Blabbermouth Can Barely Control His Tongue': Political Poems, Songs and Prophecies in the Low Countries (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries) / Jan Dumolyn and Jelle Haemers -- Proverbs and Princes in Post-Reformation England / Marcus Harmes and Gillian Colclough -- Gossip and Gossipers: The Meanings of Gossip in Sixteenth-Century Venice / Elizabeth Horodowich -- Gossip and Social Standing in Celestina: Verbal Venom as Art / Joseph T. Snow -- Prayer, Teaching, and Religious Talk: Oral Rites: Prayer and Talk in Early Modern France / Virginia Reinburg -- The Seducer's Tongue: Oral and Moral Issues in Medieval Erotodidactic Schooltexts / Rosanna Cantavella -- Preaching God's Word in a Late-medieval Valencian Convent: Isabel de Villena, Writer and Preacher / Lesley K. Twomey

This Palgrave Pivot strives to recount and understand Indigenous Law, as set within a remote community in northern Australia. It pays close attention to the realpolitik and high-level political functioning of Indigenous Laws, which inspires a discussion of how this Law models the relational, influences governance and emplaces people in an ordered kincentric lifeworld. The book argues that Indigenous Law can be examined for the ways in which it is a deliberate, stabilizing and powerful force to maintain communal order in relation to Country, a counter framing to popular and 'soft law or soft power asset' visions of such Laws often held in the national and international imaginary. It is the latter which too often renders this knowledge esoteric and relinquishes it to a category of lore or folklore. This is an open access book.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Thomas V. Cohen and Lesley K. Twomey -- 1 Oral Transfer of Ideas about Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Norway /Liv Helene Willumsen -- 2 St Helena and Love Magic: From the Spanish Inquisition to the Internet /Susana Gala Pellicer -- 3 The Power of the Spoken Word /Matthias Bähr -- 4 Tracking Conversation in the Italian Courts /Thomas V. Cohen -- 5 Tears for Fears: Mission Preaching in Seventeenth-Century France – a Double Performance /Anne Régent-Susini -- 6 Powerful Words: St Vincent Ferrer's Preaching and the Jews in Medieval Castile /Carolina Losada -- 7 'A Most Notable Spectacle': Early Modern Easter Spital Sermons /Sonia Suman -- 8 Orality and Mutiny: Authority and Speech amongst the Seafarers of Early Modern London /Richard J. Blakemore -- 9 'A Blabbermouth Can Barely Control His Tongue': Political Poems, Songs and Prophecies in the Low Countries (Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries) /Jan Dumolyn and Jelle Haemers -- 10 Proverbs and Princes in Post-Reformation England /Marcus Harmes and Gillian Colclough -- 11 The Meanings of Gossip in Sixteenth-Century Venice /Elizabeth Horodowich -- 12 Gossip and Social Standing in Celestina: Verbal Venom as Art /Joseph T. Snow -- 13 Oral Rites: Prayer and Talk in Early Modern France /Virginia Reinburg -- 14 The Seducer's Tongue: Oral and Moral Issues in Medieval Erotodidactic Schooltexts /Rosanna Cantavella -- 15 Preaching God's Word in a Late-medieval Valencian Convent: Isabel de Villena, Writer and Preacher /Lesley K. Twomey -- 16 Afterword /Michael J. Braddick -- Bibliography -- Index.

Frontmatter --Table of Contents --Introduction. Rethinking Orality: Some Reasons for a Research --The Sources of Orality: Belief, Opinion, Acceptance --Words, Gestures, Brains and Caves. Remarks on the Material Bases of Language --Epigenetic Cell Memory --Some Remarks on Orality and the Antinomy between Writing and Speaking in Western Linguistic Thought --Beyond Orality: The Case of Sign Languages --Epic and Ethology: The 'Saddleback Model'. An Analogical Model for the Study of Archaic Greek Epic --To Speak Like a Bird: Beyond a Literary Topos --Epos and Paideia between Orality and Writing --Muses and Teachers: Poets' Apprenticeship in the Greek Epic Tradition --From Oral Theory to Neuroscience: a Dialogue on Communication --Plato and the Charm of Epideictics in the Menexenus --Erga Gynaikon: Female Supremacy in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women --Index of Discussed Passages --Index of Notable Things