The Voice of the Past

The Voice of the Past
Title The Voice of the Past PDF eBook
Author Paul Thompson
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 505
Release 2017
Genre History
ISBN 0190671580

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Oral history gives history back to the people in their own words. And in giving a past, it also helps them towards a future of their own making. Oral history and life stories help to create a truer picture of the past and the changing present, documenting the lives and feelings of all kinds of people, many otherwise hidden from history. It explores personal and family relationships and uncovers the secret cultures of work. It connects public and private experience, and it highlights the experiences of migrating between cultures. At the same time it can bring courage to the old, meaning to communities, and contact between generations. Sometimes it can offer a path for healing divided communities and those with traumatic memories. Without it the history and sociology of our time would be poor and narrow. In this fourth edition of his pioneering work, fully revised with Joanna Bornat, Paul Thompson challenges the accepted myths of historical scholarship. He discusses the reliability of oral evidence in comparison with other sources and considers the social context of its development. He looks at the relationship between memory, the self and identity. He traces oral history through its own past and weighs up the recent achievements of a movement which has become international, with notably strong developments in North America, Europe, Australia, Latin America, South Africa and the Far East, despite resistance from more conservative academics. This new edition combines the classic text of The Voice of the Past with many new sections, including especially the worldwide development of different forms of oral history and the parallel memory boom, as well as discussions of theory in oral history and of memory, trauma and reconciliation. It offers a deep social and historical interpretation along with succinct practical advice on designing and carrying out a project, The Voice of the Past remains an invaluable tool for anyone setting out to use oral history and life stories to construct a more authentic and balanced record of the past and the present.

VOICES FROM THE PAST

VOICES FROM THE PAST
Title VOICES FROM THE PAST PDF eBook
Author Richard Rushing
Publisher Banner of Truth
Pages
Release 2016-12-08
Genre Religion
ISBN 9781848717275

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Richard Rushing has compiled a further 365 daily devotional readings to take you through the year with the Puritans. Building on Voices from the Past (volume 1), Voices From the Past 2 is an additional treasury of wisdom from such authors as Stephen Charnock, Thomas Manton, David Clarkson, Thomas Brooks, John Bunyan, and Jonathan Edwards, and others. The editor has painstakingly selected these readings from their sources, some of which are still widely available in print, others of which are more scarce. Readers will find these choice extracts to be excellent 'thoughts for the day', and will frequently find themselves wanting to explore more of the writings of these authors of the past.

Voices past and present

Voices past and present
Title Voices past and present PDF eBook
Author Peter E. Raper
Publisher UJ Press
Pages 491
Release 2020-01-01
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 192842449X

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The preservation of South Africa’s indigenous languages – the extinct Bushman and Khoikhoi languages in particular – is a pressing concern. Voices Past and Present serves as a comprehensive, scholarly and practical source for documenting and preserving some of them. The subcontinent of Africa has been inhabited by Bushman, Khoikhoi and Bantu-speaking peoples for thousands of years, and, for the past few centuries, also by European-speaking peoples. Contact between these peoples brought about changes in the different languages. As a result, modern languages are no longer identical to the original ones, many of which, especially in the case of the Bushman and Khoikhoi languages, have become extinct. Words used in ancient times and recorded long ago often bear no resemblance to their modern counterparts. In this book, Peter E. Raper provides a detailed investigation of the earliest recordings of words available. Words from Old Cape dialects are compared for correspondences in sound and meaning to words from 29 Bushman languages and dialects, as well as to words from Nama, Koranna, Griqua, !Xuhn, !Xoon, Khwe and N/uu. Voices Past and Present provides an extensive corpus of words that can be further utilised for the purpose of shedding light on the specific languages from which the recorded words (and names) were derived, on historical distribution of the various groups, on the classification of the different languages and peoples, for determining relationships or otherwise between the different languages, potentially identifying components of place-names and ethnonyms from ancient and extinct languages, and elucidating other matters that have long vexed scholars who have complained about a lack of recorded data.

VOICES PAST Part One

VOICES PAST Part One
Title VOICES PAST Part One PDF eBook
Author Judy Lee
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 294
Release 2018-01-10
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0359385362

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Oral Histories collected by the Benson Historical Museum from 1985 to the present. The stories cover the historical period from the middle 1800s to the 1980s. Stories are told by people from cowboys, cattlemen, homesteaders, teachers, people who built a community.

VOICES PAST PART THREE

VOICES PAST PART THREE
Title VOICES PAST PART THREE PDF eBook
Author Judy Lee
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 192
Release 2019-01-26
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0359383831

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A collection of oral histories from founding residents for Benson Arizona and the surrounding area in southeastern Arizona. Railroad workers, miners, ranchers, homesteaders, merchants, cowboys and many of those who built a community.

Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts

Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts
Title Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts PDF eBook
Author Ewa Jonsson
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages 364
Release 2020-10-15
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027260648

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This volume provides a diachronic and synchronic overview of linguistic variability and change in involved, speech-related and spoken texts in English. While previous works on the topic have focused on more limited time periods, this book covers data from the 16th century up to the present day. The studies offer new insights into historical and present-day corpus pragmatics by identifying and exploring features of orality in a variety of registers. For readers who are new to the field, the range of approaches will provide a helpful overview; for readers who are already familiar with the field, the volume will shed light on the complexity of factors such as register, sociolinguistic variability and language attitude, thus making it a useful resource and stepping stone for further exploration. The volume celebrates the groundbreaking contributions of Professor Merja Kytö in making accessible speech-related corpus material and leading the way in its exploration.

Voices Past

Voices Past
Title Voices Past PDF eBook
Author Susan Rollinson
Publisher Troubador Publishing Ltd
Pages 283
Release 2009
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1848762666

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This is a story about voices of the past, religion, archaeological finds and darkness and light.