Teaching the history of interpretation

A selected review of speech communication studies in the arts: A retrospective and prospective look

“…For among the suggestions for a revival of the oral tradition (Beloof, 1969;Veilleux, 1969;Whitaker, 1973), there were people who saw other disciplines such as anthropology, folklore, and literary history (Thompson, 1973) and sociolinguistics, folklore, and literary criticism (Fine and Speer, 1977) as aiding in this endeavor. In 1981, Hopkins and Long also suggested study of writers performing their own work and of storytellers.…”