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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"orality"”.
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Orality in Medieval Drama
Da die historische Sprachwissenschaft ausschließlich über geschriebene Texte als Datenbasis verfügt, wurden insbesondere im Forschungsgebiet der historischen Pragmatik bestimmte Genres identifiziert, die Aufschluss über die Sprechsprachlichkeit vergangener Sprachstufen bieten können. Dem …
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Orality and Literacy in High School Beginning Composition
Early in a teaching career, a beginning composition teacher may notice that even though 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, …
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The Spoken Word: God, Scripture, and Orality in Missions
This dissertation contends that the "Orality Movement" in missionary circles has a dearth of theological development and is therefore susceptible to doctrinal error leading to ministry practices that are potentially harmful to the spiritual health of newly planted churches. As a corrective, this …
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Literacy in Scandinavia. A passage from orality influenced by runes
… reading the recent studies about the traces of orality and the beginning of literacy in the oldest Scandinavian texts we preserve, the first conclusion to be drawn is that the problem is far from being solved. Even though some medievalists believe that orality can not be proven by reading the …
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Beyond orality and literacy : reclaiming the sensorium for composition studies
… way. Rather than continuing or redefining the orality, literacy, secondary orality continuum, I demonstrate that Ong’s work is grounded in more relevant concepts that should no longer be overlooked. A deeper understanding of “the word,” “interior,” and “presence” leads to the revelation that …
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Dancing and ranting in the chat room: synthesizing orality and literacy
In the last decade, the technological development of real time 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 …
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Mediating identity through orality in West African films adapted from literature
… are mediating oral tradition forms as secondary orality in West African Films. The study aims to show that filmmakers mediate orality as an aesthetic source. The goal is to examine the value of the oral narrative on the screen. To study the oral qualities of the literature in the audio-visual …
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Translating Le coup de la girafe: A Register Analysis of Fictional Orality
This thesis examines fictional orality through the lens of register theory, and the application of these concepts in translation. Fictional orality is created by the intersection of two registers that are quite distinct in some languages and cultures: the more formal, written literary register, and …
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The orality - literacy debate with special reference to selected work of S.E.K. Mqhayi
The focus of this thesis is on Xhosa oral and written poetry. The discussion in the thesis is based on the information from existing literature, the responses from the questionnaires and the interviews with some Xhosa iimbongi (person who sings praises) who have reflected on their personal …
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St. Ignatius' Quill Pen: Exploring the Orality-Literacy Difficulty in the Spiritual Exercises
… 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 of …
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Fallahin on Trial in Colonial Egypt: Apprehending the Peasantry through Orality, Writing, and Performance
… state used the modern techniques of judicial orality, writing, and performance, both to justify a series of reforms that turned the entire legal process into a parody of justice, and to develop a grand narrative that essentialized peasants as revengeful, greedy, and passionate and ultimately …
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"What Has Been Will Be Again": Secondary Orality Made Manifest in Modern Neo-Sophistry
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The Role of Secondary Orality in the Construction of Factual Discourses about Colombian Corruption
… dissertation examines the role of secondary orality in the construction of factual discourses about Colombian corruption. By performing a rhetorical analysis of the Colombian radio program Hora 20, I analyze how factual discourses about Colombian corruption are constructed through radio and, …
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Virtualizing The Word: Expanding Walter Ong's Theory Of Orality And Literacy Through A Culture Of Virtuality
… 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 theoretical …
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Outsourcing Our Memory 2.0: Using Walter Ong's Orality/Literacy Studies to Recognize Technologies Effects on Memory
… in human communication. In Ong’s seminal text, Orality and Literacy, he identified the significance that communicative shifts have on the way we receive information and create knowledge. Being an astute polymath, Ong’s multidisciplinary approach to communication opens avenues to the topic of …
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A comparison of the textual structures of Arabic and English written texts : A study in the comparative orality of Arabic
The aim of this thesis is to show how patterns of cohesion and text development differ in English and Arabic, and in doing so add to the growing literature showing that Arabic is still very much an oral language, at least in comparison with English. That is to say, Arabic tends to be written as if …
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Workshop Theatre in South Africa in the 1980s : a critical examination with specific reference to power, orality and the carnivalesque
… within poststructuralist critical theory; orality and the oral tradition; and the carnivalesque as it is conceived of in the writing of Mikhail Bakhtin. Chapter One is a general introduction to the dissertation. In Part I of the study, it is argued that workshop theatre forms part of a …
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