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From Tongue to Text - The Interface Between the Written and the Oral. By Jack Goody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xxii + 328. £27.50 (£9.95 paperback).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

David Henige
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University of Wisconsin – Madison

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