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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Orality and Literacy"”.
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Orality and Literacy in High School Beginning Composition
… he spends an inordinate amount of time marking and grading papers, many students continue to make the same mistakes. This phenomenon may be due to the fact that students are of an oral mindset. In other words, the student's brain does not operate in the manner needed to produce the type of work …
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Beyond orality and literacy : reclaiming the sensorium for composition studies
In this dissertation I conduct a historical and theoretical reexamination of Walter Ong in order to explore the extent to which technology transforms consciousness. I discover within his work an understanding of literacy, technology, and humanity that can help us negotiate change without succumbing …
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Dancing and ranting in the chat room: synthesizing orality and literacy
… online communication via a personal computer and a modern has created a discourse environment that is witnessing rapid changes and mutations in language usage. Synchronous conversation spaces such as Internet relay chat rooms and MOOs are contributing to the development of a new expressive …
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Virtualizing The Word: Expanding Walter Ong's Theory Of Orality And Literacy Through A Culture Of Virtuality
… through a theoretical expansion of Walter Ong's literacy and orality culture model. It investigates the ubiquitous and multimodal nature of the virtuality cultural phenomenon that is mediated by contemporary technology and not explained by pre-existing cultural conventions. Through examining the …
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Talking through the text : Rakugo and the oral/literal interface
… of 'oral literatures' traditionally viewed 'orality,' the spoken mode of communication, as inferior to 'literacy,' the written mode. They depicted 'oral literatures' as legacies from the past, and the products of socially, economically and geographically marginalized, illiterate populations, …
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Comparing literate and oral cultures with a view to improving understanding of students from oral traditions: an autoethnographic approach
<p>In his book Orality and Literacy, Walter Ong describes the difference between cultures that have never been exposed to literature and those that have been highly influenced by literature and literacy. He suggests that such learners have a different “consciousness” as a result of their life …
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Outsourcing Our Memory 2.0: Using Walter Ong's Orality/Literacy Studies to Recognize Technologies Effects on Memory
… media ecology investigates how media and communication processes profoundly affect human perception and understanding. The pervasive role that technology plays in modern life today has exacerbated the results of technology on human beings. Some of these outcomes are not desirable and …
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A Praxis of Oral Homiletics: Preaching from the Heart
<p>Christian preaching has been a central and significant custom to the practitioners of biblically confessional and creedal communities in worship, evangelization, and discipleship. Yet modern preachers confront two challenges presented by the New Homiletic and the media environment. Undue favor …
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The Role of Rhetoric: Ong’s Ramus Research as a Hermeneutic Opening for Mediated Communication
<p>This project examines Walter Ong’s scholarship and further situates Ong in the field of media ecology. Ong’s conceptions of mediated communication begin to take form in his early-career graduate research on Peter Ramus. While Ong’s scholarship on secondary orality, and orality and literacy …
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Implications of African Pianism on the arrangement and Orchestration of mmino
… find their origins in social, cultural, and political interactions, primarily stemming from community-centric activities. Communal and social engagements deeply influence the shaping and preservation of African knowledge, cultural traditions, artistic expressions, and songs. Additionally, …
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Sakymas ir rašymas: dviejų kultūros modelių tvermė ir kaita Lietuvos Didžiojoje Kunigaikštystėje /
Orality and Literacy: Persistence and Transformation of Two Cultural Models in Grand Duchy of Lithuania is devoted to investigate two cultural models – oral and literate – their intersection, conflicts and turning points in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. A question about their influence on a change …
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The healing power : mythology as medicine in contemporary American Indian literature
… of alienation witnessed in Indian characters and the healing they achieve through myth in three contemporary American Indian novels. In James Welch's historical novel, Fools Crow, I explore the methods through which Welch tells the story of Fools Crow. I draw comparisons between oppositions …
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”Jag kan göra hundra låtar”. Barns musikskapande med digitala verktyg
… children are able to create music by singing and using musical instruments. The present study was undertaken with eight-year-old children in school year 2 in order to investigate the children’s composing and composition processes using a synthesizer and computer software. The research …
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The Legendary Saga as a Medium of Cultural Memory: A Study of AM 589a–f 4to and AM 586 4to
This thesis examines the representation and historical significance of the legendary Scandinavian past in the Icelandic manuscripts AM 589a–f 4to and, to a lesser extent, AM 586 4to, both of which were produced by the same two scribes in the late fifteenth century. I begin in §1 by outlining the …
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Language in the Mirror: Language Ideologies, Schooling and Islam in Qatar
… language acquisition. Through ethnography and a revised theory of language ideologies, I argue that as languages come in greater contact in multi-lingual spaces, mediation must occur between the new and old relationships that are emerging as a result of population growth, policy changes and …
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Epistemic entanglements in an age of universals: literacy, libraries and children's stories in rural Malawi
This thesis examines the spread and impact of the universal of literacy in rural Malawi, through the lens of globally circulating Anglophone children’s story books and the emergence of village libraries. While Africa in the twenty-first century is being seen as an emerging global player, many …
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St. Ignatius' Quill Pen: Exploring the Orality-Literacy Difficulty in the Spiritual Exercises
… situation emblematically. I try to understand the orality-literacy dynamic within the <em>Exercises</em> through the theoretical framework of semiotic phenomenology. The Ignatian emblematics can be understood as phenomenological descriptions that asked the exercitants to provide the parts …
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Los macroactos literarios de ficción y las relaciones intertextuales diferidas en la constitución de la Literatura: a propósito de la literatura medieval
… problem is highly important to explore syntactic and pragmatic literary construction in Literature as a macro literary fiction act. The presence of this macro literary fiction act is frequently materialized in the so called �pragmatic nucleus� opposed to the so called �semantic nucleus�, …
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Reimagining keening: an examination of the reinvention of Irish lament as a healing tool in the contemporary world
… but is now being reimagined in contemporary Ireland as a healing practice in workshops and retreats. Through ethnographic fieldwork (2017–2019), this study examines how groups in Ireland, (and to a lesser extent involves groups in Finland), are repurposing lament as a tool for emotional and …