In our highly literate culture, orality is all-pervasive. Different kinds of media and performance -- theatre, film, television, story-telling, structured play -- make us ask what is the relation between improvisation and premeditation, between transcription and textualization, between rehearsal, recollection and re-narration. The challenge of writing down what is spoken is partly technical, but also political and philosophical. How do young writers represent the spoken language of their contemporaries? What are the rules governing the transcription of oral evidence in fiction and...