The Importance Of Communication In An Oral Culture

`In the novel Speak, the author Laurie Halse Anderson, uses the main character, Melinda, to show how communication is very important when it comes to maintaining healthy relationships. One way Melinda shows this is by explaining that there are two sides to people, that are always contradicting each other. This idea of communication can also be represented through Melinda opening up in her artwork in school, which allows the reader to really see what she is feeling. One other reason this can be seen in when the attention is drawn to Melinda’s mouth and throat region describing how she struggles to speak up. To conclude, Melinda shows just how important communication is in maintaining healthy relationships in quite a few ways through the text.

memories, Welty uses different forms of figurative language. Welty uses diction and pathos to express the

Communication was lacking in a consistent manner in oral, written, electronic versions. Many pieces were available but never consolidated to present a complete picture or close the loop.

The positive effects of adult support for children can be witnessed as children gain confidence and show an increased level of self-esteem. These positive effects are reinforced when encouraged and given praise for their achievements from teachers, parents, carers, and other adults.

Communication has allows people to express their beliefs, explain how they feel and have conversations over vast distances without needing to be there. An aspect of verbal communication is the language register. The language register allows people to express their feelings to others, whether they are happy, sad or angry.

1. Which form of communication, oral or written, is most important in each of the following situations?

Inability to Have Facts: Such valuable facts are easily altered in memory, and then further adjusted through literary construction. Our brains do not store facts like movies on a disc, but rather like condensed and packaged information called ‘gist’. Events are summarized based on feelings instead of visual details. While this is efficient for storage and makes it easy for activation and association with the present experience, it is largely made up of sensational, emotional, and associative aspects instead of solid fact. (Boyd). As Young explains, “All writing, all composition, is construction. We do not imitate the world, we construct versions of it.” (Young). That ‘construction’ is as flawed as our ability to remember. Elie Wiesel struggled with words when writing his memoir Night. He found that he had plenty to say, but no way to say it. Wiesel observed the intrinsic meanings already associated with common words like ‘hunger’ and ‘fear’ and how they did not mean the same thing to him as the rest of humanity who had never endured Auschwitz. Chaim Kaplan voiced similar frustrations, lamenting that that only a divinely inspired pen could ever find the words to describe the destruction of his city.

In this paper, I will inform of three concepts from the textbook Communication Matters, Second Edition by Kory Floyd that was most beneficial to my learning throughout the course of Speech 1700. The three concepts I selected to discuss of are affect displays, belief, and scripted speech. In addition, I will explain each concept that I selected by providing a necessary theoretical background and general examples. Moreover, I will discuss of each concepts and its benefits to my learning of communication. Furthermore, I will discuss of each concept 's importance in my daily communications and my application usage in personal and professional settings. Lastly, I will conclude of the overall experience learning of communications and the three concepts I selected that I found beneficial to my daily communication.

The study of human communication in the physiological and in the psychological field are paramount as they are understood as the basis of mankind. As a collective human race, people have been able to evolve due to the ability to talk and to listen, which eventually lead to reading and writing. Linguistics allows for the recording and collecting of historical documents and data that has been passed down to generations as a form of knowledge. Conversational exchanges are a significant way one can indicate to the other some sort of behavioral response; whether it be asking for an object or for assistance in performing a task. Also in an instance where one is asked a pedagogical question, there is a given window for a response that prompts learning.

Through this week learning resources, I have learned that there are evidences that demonstrate that when a child has limited experiences he or she is more likely to have difficult comprehending what is read. It is why early childhood professionals affirm that oral language is the foundation for literacy development. Everything that children learn about speaking and listening they use for writing and reading and what they learn from writing and reading they use in listening and speaking. In other words, oral language and literacy develop simultaneously. When parents provide rich language and literacy reinforcement at home, children do better in school than those who do not. It is also known for early childhood professionals that for a child with limited experiences is more difficult comprehending what is read. For example, a child who has being exposed to many environments like a farm or like a museum will have more mentally engagement in classrooms activities about things he or she already know that children who have not had experience in those environments. Many researches showed that children that have not have a literacy development or an oral language development years before formal schooling, are less likely to be successful beginning readers, opening an achievement lag that might last through the primary grades. Some of the reasons why parents are not actively involved into their children’s educations are their socioeconomic or legal status. For example, in an immigrant family sometimes both parents have to work and sometimes they have to work two shifts. I have known families where children are the whole day in school and with nannies. Those children do not develop any skills that help them to succeed at the time of attending forming school.

There have been major developments in the progression of communication and how information is conveyed in culture during the last century. Societies shared information and meaning orally in the beginning. Information was slowly passed to others by the word of mouth, by teachers, poets, and the telling of stories in tribal societies. The alphabet and the use of written words was passed down by monks, stenographers, and philosophers. This soon became the most excepted form of communication and was used by the rulers. Others felt that not having that face-to-face would prevent open question and answer discussions; which would inhibit the expression of individual ideas and values. Working

One way that written records have improved early human society is through communication and memory. By having things written down, the communication grew from cities to cities. A purpose of written script

Following this, corresponding to the two biases of communication, there are both oral and written media. Oral communication can be seen as time-binding because in oral societies, knowledge can only be passed through generations by word of mouth which generally take place within groups or communities (Innis, 1990). Also, because memory is limited, it is necessary to be particularly selective about knowledge, as a result of which, knowledge not related to maintaining tradition is difficult to be handed down (ibid.).

Oral traditions are historical traditions passed down by word of mouth from one generation to another without written instruction. Oral tradition was used during

Secondly, the ability to write enable our ancestor to transmit information to people they have not ever met. Cuneiform in Mesopotamia and oracle bone in ancient Chinese history are evidence of information that has transmit across time and space. It is a person’s words that has been recorded and read by others – decades, or even