R1 (Comm): Orality and Literacy

Question 1

Language is primarily ______.

Answer 1

an oral phenomenon

Question 2

________ can exist and mostly existed without any writing at all.

Answer 2

oral expression

Question 3

Father of Modern Linguistics

Answer 3

Ferdinand de Saussure

Question 4

Henry Sweet insisted that words are not made up letters but of _____.

Answer 4

phonemes

Question 5

Phonemes

Answer 5

functional sound units

Question 6

Phonemes

Answer 6

functional sound units

Question 7

The way language is nested in sound

Answer 7

Phonemics

Question 8

The orality of cultures untouched by literacy

Answer 8

Primary Orality

Question 9

_____ converts certain few dialects to grapholects.

Answer 9

writing

Question 10

Transdialectal language formed by deep commitment to writing.

Answer 10

grapholect

Question 11

A secondary modeling system dependent on a prior primary system - spoken language.

Answer 11

writing

Question 12

Converting a text into sound, aloud or in the imagination

Answer 12

reading

Question 13

There are many nonoral ways of communication, but _____ is paramount.

Answer 13

articulated sound

Question 14

_____ itself relates to sound.

Answer 14

thought

Question 15

______ of speech, such as sign language, are dependent on oral speech systems.

Answer 15

substitutes

Question 16

Why is writing important?

Answer 16

keeps record
provides content to be studied and analyzed
necessary for the development of many academic disciplines

Question 17

Scientific and literary study of language and literature focused on _________.

Answer 17

written works

Question 18

The equivalent of studying or learning in primarily oral cultures

Answer 18

apprenticeship
listening and repeating what the person teaching said
mastering proverbs
assimilating
participation

Question 19

Importance of writing to orality

Answer 19

organize the principles or constituents of oratory
made oral performance pieces available to study and assimilation

Question 20

speech art; basically meant as public speaking or oratory

Answer 20

rhetoric

Question 21

paradigm of all discourse, including that of writing

Answer 21

rhetoric

Question 22

most comprehensive academic subject in all Western culture for two thousand years

Answer 22

rhetoric

Question 23

Were oral verbalization viewed as the same or a lesser variant of written verbalization due to scholarly focus on text?

Answer 23

Yes

Question 24

What is the counterpart of literature in oral heritage?

Answer 24

none

Question 25

Secondary Orality

Answer 25

The new orality of present-day high-tech culture.

Question 26

________ has no residue or deposit as written words.

Answer 26

Purely oral tradition

Question 27

literae means

Answer 27

letters of the alphabet

Question 28

Why is the term ‘oral literature’ problematic?

Answer 28

orality = variant of writing
etymology of literature
writing is pre-emptive and imperialist

Question 29

Problems with the term ‘preliterate.’

Answer 29

presents orality as something that preceded literacy instead of a primary modeling system

Question 30

Text means

Answer 30

to weave

Question 31

rhaps idein

Answer 31

rhapsodize or to stitch songs together

Question 32

Why is term ‘text’ problematic?

Answer 32

text is related today to writing

Question 33

Examples of self-explanatory circumlocutions.

Answer 33

Purely oral art forms
Verbal art forms

Question 34

Was writing needed to develop grammar?

Answer 34

No, orality was enough

Question 35

Orality needs to produce and is destined to produce ______.

Answer 35

writing

Question 36

_______ is no longer possible once writing has taken possession of the psyche.

Answer 36

primary orality

Question 37

Literacy is _____ so it can restore and reconstruct orality and iliteracy.

Answer 37

adaptable