Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Roger D. Abrahams. "The Training of the Man of Words in Talking Sweet." Language in Society, 1:15-29.

In the course of describing a diglossia situation and the teaching of a "high" variety of speaking in the British West Indies, he mentions the role of Parry-Lord formulas and the learned ability to improvise (espec. 22-23).
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