Immanence and Immanent Truth
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1995
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Oral Tradition
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In a recent attempt to account for the cathartic power of traditional
expressive speech forms, I introduced the notion of commemorative
discourse, which is differentiated from its counterpart, informative discourse,
on the basis of referential, structural, and acoustic properties (McDowell
1992). With regard to spoken discourse, informative utterance typically
exhibits irregular (or only slightly regularized) prosodies and its referential
capacity takes in the whole sweep of routine experience. Commemorative
utterance, in contrast, exhibits more regularized prosodies in the process of
asserting or formulating something that I called immanent truth, by which I
intended approximately the set of ideas, values, and associations that are in
some sense constitutive of the collectivity.
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McDowell, John H. "Immanence and Immanent Truth," (1995) Oral Tradition 10: 235-62.
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