On Gendo-uso in Tendai Oral Tradition

Narrative Tradition In Early Greek Oral Poetry And Vase-Painting

Archaic Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BC exhibits visual narrative phenomena that are very similar to the verbal narrative patterns of traditional, orally composed poetry: in the poetry these are the familiar formulaic phrases and themes analyzed by Milman Parry and the ensuing train of oral theorists; in the art they take the form of repetitious iconography and recurrent composit...

The Forager Oral Tradition and the Evolution of Prolonged Juvenility

The foraging niche is characterized by the exploitation of nutrient-rich resources using complex extraction techniques that take a long time to acquire. This costly period of development is supported by intensive parental investment. Although human life history theory tends to characterize this investment in terms of food and care, ethnographic research on foraging skill transmission suggests t...

effect of oral presentation on development of l2 learners grammar

this experimental study has been conducted to test the effect of oral presentation on the development of l2 learners grammar. but this oral presentation is not merely a deductive instruction of grammatical points, in this presentation two hypotheses of krashen (input and low filter hypotheses), stevicks viewpoints on grammar explanation and correction and widdowsons opinion on limited use of l1...

On the Neoclassical Tradition in Labor Economics

In a recent article George Boyer and Robert Smith describe the development of the neoclassical tradition in labor economics. In this paper I reexamine this subject and provide an alternative account of the evolution of thought in the field. I argue Boyer and Smith incorrectly define both the institutional and neoclassical approaches to labor market analysis. The essence of institutional economi...

Kingship in the Mycenaean World and its Reflections in the Oral Tradition [Review]