Three perspectives

　　　　How Performance Theory works

　　　　　　What difference does performance make?

　　　　Keys to performance Special codes

　　　　　　Figurative language

　　　　　　Parallelism

　　　　　　Special formulae

　　　　　　Appeals to tradition

　　　　　　Disclaimer of performance

　　Fourth Word: Verbal art on its own terms: Ethnopoetics 95

　　　　Does oral poetry need to be read differently?

　　　　Reading, representing, and reperforming

　　　　Scoring oral poetry

　　　　Voiced Texts: Slam poetry

　　　　Voices from the Past: Beowulf

　　Fifth Word: Traditional implications: Immanent Art 109

　　　　What difference does repetition make?

　　　　The great experiment

　　　　From structure to meaning

　　　　The model

　　　　　　Register, Performance arena, Communicative economy

　　　　From model to application

　　　　Dovetailing: Word-power

　　Sixth Word: A Poor Reader's Almanac 125

　　　　Why *proverbs*?

　　　　An almanac of *proverbs*

　　　　　#1. Oral poetry works like language, only more so.

　　　　　#2. Oralpoetry is a very plural noun.

　　　　　#3. Performance is the enabling event, tradition is the context for that event.

　　　　　#4. The art of oral poetry emerges through rather than in spite of its special language.

　　　　　#5. The best companion for reading oral poetry in an unpublished dictionary.

　　　　　#6. The play's the thing (and not the script).

　　　　　#7. Repetition is the symptom, not the disease.

　　　　　#8. Composition and reception are two sides of the same coin.

　　　　　#9. Read both behind and between the signs.

　　　　　#10. True diversity demands diversity in frame of reference.