Refining Terms

In this blog post, I’m going to be talking about the digital rhetoric print New Media refine

But before I get to the definition of Secondary Orality I’m going to be talksing about Oral Cultures and Orality. Edit Post “Defining Digital Rhetoric” ‹ Writing in Digital Spaces — WordPress (chrisfriend.us)

You see Oral Cultures are relevant to these definitions because they’re connected. New Media

In this book it states that in Oral Cultures knowledge once acquired had to be constantly repeated or it would be lost.

So in older times since there was no easy way to send out information all at once people had to tell each other information through word of mouth.

To put in my two cents, an oral culture is flawed.

This is because humans are imperfect people and a message is going to get misunderstood.

Then that message is going to morph and change into something else unless there are a lot of precautions taken. refine

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Next, we have the definition of Orality itself. digital rhetoric digital rhetoric digital rhetoric

Orality is described as a word used to characterize speech.

But I’m going to talk about Primary Orality and then Secondary. Primary Orality describes the way people spoke heard and thought before the age of literacy.

So, like the previous example of Oral culture. print

Finally, we have Secondary which describes ” the speaking and listening skills of people influenced by their literary background “.

So, one could assume that the same would be for shorter, simpler sentences.

Say someone who was born in England and all their life they learn to speak English the way people over there speak English. prints

Not only are they going to pick up an accent, they’re probably going to pick up several different slang terms as well. hkihghjh jgfhjyg vh