CONTENTS -- Introduction -- I PERFORMANCE -- Breakthrough into Performance -- Oral Sermons and Oral Narrative -- II PERFORMANCE AND COMMUNICATION -- A Parable in Context: A Social Interactional Analysis of Storytelling Performance -- Filipino-American Erotica and the Ethnography of a Folkloric Event -- The Tale-Singer and His Audience -- III TRANSMISSION AND COMMUNICATION -- The Hypothesis of Multi-Conduit Transmission in Folklore -- IV COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF FOLKLORIC COMMUNICATION -- Quaker Folk-Linguistics and Folklore -- Folklore, Worldview, and Communication -- Folklore and Communication on St. Vincent -- Index.