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  2. Ethnography of communication - Wikipedia

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    Dell Hymes proposed the ethnography of communication as an approach towards analyzing patterns of language use within speech communities, in order to provide support for his idea of communicative competence, which itself was a reaction to Noam Chomsky's distinction between linguistic competence and linguistic performance.

  3. Secondary orality - Wikipedia

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    Secondary orality should not be confused with "oral residue" in which a culture has not fully transitioned to literate / written culture and retains many of the characteristics of primary oral cultures. Secondary orality is a phenomenon of post-literacy, whereas oral residue is a stage in the transition from pre-literate to literate.

  4. Orality - Wikipedia

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    An oral community in Takéo, Cambodia, confronts writing.Modern scholarship has shown that orality is a complex and tenacious social phenomenon. Orality is thought and verbal expression in societies where the technologies of literacy (especially writing and print) are unfamiliar to most of the population.

  5. Oral tradition - Wikipedia

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    Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The transmission is through speech or song and may include folktales , ballads , chants , prose or poetry .

  6. Dynamic Data Exchange - Wikipedia

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    In computing, Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) is a technology for interprocess communication used in early versions of Microsoft Windows and OS/2.DDE allows programs to manipulate objects provided by other programs, and respond to user actions affecting those objects.

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    12.4.dll. 3 comments. 12.5 Kaplan ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Last week an article about a guy with a dozen satellite dishes outside ...

  8. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/September 2005 ...

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    Adobe sells a PDF plugin for Word - it's not bad. The problem is that it's expensive - PDF is a proprietary file format, unlike (say) HTML, so Adobe take what the market will bear. There are a variety of free converters out there, though - do a search on doc to pdf or word to pdf - but they'll take some fiddling to work.

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