Oral Literacies: When Adults Read Aloud

List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction Part 1 Chapter 2 The Reading Aloud in Britain Today (RABiT) project Chapter 3 The questionnaire: Surveying contemporary reading aloud Chapter 4 Mass Observation Chapter 5 The interviews and recordings Part 2 Chapter 6 Family, friends and lovers: Community, domesticity, intimacy and mediation Chapter 7 Working life Chapter 8 Religion Chapter 9 Literary life: Production, performance, experience and the Wordhord Chapter 10 Solitude: Aloud alone Chapter 11 Oral reading and education Chapter 12 Conclusion Index