Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. PERFORMANCE -- BREAKTHROUGH INTO PERFORMANCE / Hymes, Dell -- ORAL SERMONS AND ORAL NARRATIVE / Rosenberg, Bruce A. -- II. PERFORMANCE AND COMMUNICATION -- A PARABLE IN CONTEXT: A SOCIAL INTERACTIONAL ANALYSIS OF STORYTELLING PERFORMANCE / Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara -- FILIPINO-AMERICAN EROTICA AND THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF A FOLKLORIC EVENT / Menez, Herminia Q. -- THE TALE-SINGER AND HIS AUDIENCE / Basgôz, Ilhan -- III. TRANSMISSION AND COMMUNICATION -- THE HYPOTHESIS OF MULTI-CONDUIT TRANSMISSION IN FOLKLORE / Dégh, Linda / Vázsonyi, Andrew -- IV. COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF FOLKLORIC COMMUNICATION -- QUAKER FOLK-LINGUISTICS AND FOLKLORE / Bauman, Richard -- FOLKLORE, WORLDVIEW, AND COMMUNICATION / Toelken, Barre -- FOLKLORE AND COMMUNICATION ON ST. VINCENT / Abrahams, Roger D. -- INDEX -- Backmatter