Other strands link the twelve essays: one centres on the idea that voice is something vulnerable and short-lived, while another focuses on the hierarchy implicit in the relationship between orality and literacy. Both are demonstrated, for instance, when folk, women s and youth cultures are textualised and thus potentially destroyed, rather than preserved, in writing, leading to the hypothesis that orality is, essentially, irreproducible as literacy .--unsigned notice "Forum for Modern Language Studies, 46.2, 2010, 247-48 ""