R1 (Comm): Orality and Literacy Flashcards
Language is primarily ______.
an oral phenomenon
________ can exist and mostly existed without any writing at all.
oral expression
Father of Modern Linguistics
Ferdinand de Saussure
Henry Sweet insisted that words are not made up letters but of _____.
phonemes
Phonemes
functional sound units
Phonemes
functional sound units
The way language is nested in sound
Phonemics
The orality of cultures untouched by literacy
Primary Orality
_____ converts certain few dialects to grapholects.
writing
Transdialectal language formed by deep commitment to writing.
grapholect
A secondary modeling system dependent on a prior primary system - spoken language.
writing
Converting a text into sound, aloud or in the imagination
reading
There are many nonoral ways of communication, but _____ is paramount.
articulated sound
_____ itself relates to sound.
thought
______ of speech, such as sign language, are dependent on oral speech systems.
substitutes
Why is writing important?
keeps record
provides content to be studied and analyzed
necessary for the development of many academic disciplines
Scientific and literary study of language and literature focused on _________.
written works
The equivalent of studying or learning in primarily oral cultures
apprenticeship
listening and repeating what the person teaching said
mastering proverbs
assimilating
participation
Importance of writing to orality
organize the principles or constituents of oratory
made oral performance pieces available to study and assimilation
speech art; basically meant as public speaking or oratory
rhetoric
paradigm of all discourse, including that of writing
rhetoric
most comprehensive academic subject in all Western culture for two thousand years
rhetoric
Were oral verbalization viewed as the same or a lesser variant of written verbalization due to scholarly focus on text?
Yes
What is the counterpart of literature in oral heritage?
none
Secondary Orality
The new orality of present-day high-tech culture.
________ has no residue or deposit as written words.
Purely oral tradition
literae means
letters of the alphabet
Why is the term ‘oral literature’ problematic?
orality = variant of writing
etymology of literature
writing is pre-emptive and imperialist
Problems with the term ‘preliterate.’
presents orality as something that preceded literacy instead of a primary modeling system
Text means
to weave
rhaps idein
rhapsodize or to stitch songs together
Why is term ‘text’ problematic?
text is related today to writing
Examples of self-explanatory circumlocutions.
Purely oral art forms
Verbal art forms
Was writing needed to develop grammar?
No, orality was enough
Orality needs to produce and is destined to produce ______.
writing
_______ is no longer possible once writing has taken possession of the psyche.
primary orality
Literacy is _____ so it can restore and reconstruct orality and iliteracy.
adaptable
