Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Phatic Expression, Orality, Syllabary
25 Nov 2016
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Main ideas: language is mainly oral (or signed) writing is a late and not always necessary tool, orality and literacy have different characteristics, literacy depends on particular cultural characteristics, literacies as process is much more than deciphering marks. Orality: need to understand difference between reading and writing: main form of language for most of human history, very dif cult for us to imagine a world without writing, traces of orality remain in our speech. Writing came out of a necessity to keep records. Cultures need to be considered on par and develop writing. Writing overtakes how we feel about reading. Writing is grammatically well, no mistakes, very dense, a lot of info in small space. !1: people-centered: as opposed to idea-centered (writing), how they feel about it and writing is the idea not the people taking part, context dependent: must be present to understand what is being said, writing is. Orality is everything that writing is not.
