ISTORIA ORALĂ CA GEN
Oral History As Genre

Summary/Abstract: Oral history is a specific category of discourse: history presumes a narration about the past, and oral indicates a mean of expression. As a research field, the linguistic dimensions were underlined regarding its development. A great importance was accorded to speech and the performative act. On the other hand, oral historians became conscious of the significance of dialogue between historians and interviewees. Of the same relevance is what oral researchers hear and what they say or write. That is why oral history is a composite genre, split between narrator and historian, individual and collective discourse, between who said what?, to whom?, why?

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