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If we call the oratorical genre \u201cmotivational speaking\u201d, how come we call the book genre \u201cself-help\u201d and not \u201cmotivational writing\u201d?

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(bcuz reading is thought to involve agency in a way listening doesn’t, bcuz literacy is high-class)

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