Orality

I enjoyed Their Eyes Were Watching God's grasp on imagination, imagery and phrasing. Janie's dialogue and vernacular managed to carry me along, slipping pieces of wisdom to me in such a manner that I hardly realize they are ingesting something deep and true. Their Eyes Were Watching God recognizes that there are problems to the human condition, such as the need to possess, the fear of the unknown and resulting stagnation. The book does not leave us with the hopelessness of Fitzgerald or Hemingway

Throughout his text The Conquest of America, Todorov, a french sociologist, implements multiple theories written by Walter Ong and Jack Goody in regard to the contrasting effects living in an oral versus a literate society plays on its members. More specifically, Ong and Goody claim that the way one communicates, greatly affects their thought processes as well as their physical brain. To explore this, Todorov uses Cortes’ and Montezuma’s communication techniques throughout their battle to highlight

The role of the transmission of knowledge in Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is vital for people to recall and study more of the past prior to the nuclear war. Our contemporary world understands the significance contained in past literacy and oral traditions to teach us our civilization’s past, however, their current forms are not cherished by this generation due to technological advances. Even though the situations and settings in the world of Canticle for Leibowitz and the contemporary

The Cheese and the Worms Book Review The rise of literacy towards the end of the Middle Ages brought with it a torrent of individuals ready to think fro themselves and formulate their own theories and ideas regarding God and the Christian faith. For a long time, the church held a near monopoly on literacy and used this to maintain control over people’s lives and beliefs. While some of these new intellectuals created ideas that would forever change the way people envision themselves and their

received is thought by some to be analogous to a modern day textbook lesson, in which students learn mathematics, grammar, and law, all by the written word. So is the contention of Homeric scholar Eric A. Havelock. As Hobart and Schiffman state in Orality and the

Snapchat Revolution: Effects of Ephemeral Messaging Debuted in September of 2011, Snapchat is a multi-messaging application for mobile devices developed by Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy (Hempel & Lashinsky, 2014). The phenomenon of ‘self-destructing messages’ has significant implications for personal communication. Snapchat, an evolutionary innovation, revisits ephemeral dialogue amid the contemporary ubiquity of digital permanence—where increasingly, communication assets are virtually stored and

Liz Gunner an American professor and anthropologist says in her article Africa and Orality that; “orality was the means by which Africa made its existence and its history long before the colonial and imperial presence of the West manifested itself. In this sense, orality needs to be seen not simply as ‘the absence of literacy’ but as something self-constitutive” (2004.p1). Generally speaking, oral tradition or orality in Africa can be distinguished into poems, folktales, legends, storytelling, riddles

Role models influence us as humans. We use our parents, community leaders, and even celebrities to shape ourselves in a similar way to them. Media, like a role model, influences society. Also, media, which society creates, is also the tool that shapes and moulds it. The theory that media (technology) shapes society – technological determinism – is introduced by Canadian scholars Harold Innis and Marshall. Though this is a technologically determinist way of looking at communication, the different

Oral? Literate? With the developing of the computers and telephones, people spend more and more time on typing letters and watching responses on Internet. Some parents always argue with their children just because children spend so much time on the Internet. Some couples separates just because they consider that their lovers spend too much on the Internet. Some people believe that the developing of alphabet and technology lets people separate from the nature, for example, David Abram. Although I

For the purpose of this essay I am relating what little I know based on Indigenous Orality in Canada. Indigenous people are and have been recognized as a people who come from oral traditions. The traditions associated with Orality encompass several different aspects of Indigenous realities and ways of being (Wilson & Taylor, 2005). Orality could be argued to have shifted through technology and our connected world and has become the incorporation of traditional Indigenous stories and teachings that