CMNS 110 Lecture 3: CMNS 110 - lecture 3
8 Mar 2016
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Although orality is ceremonial in contemporary practices, this doesn"t mean that the oral component is unimportant or merely incidental. Mnemonics: science & techniques for aiding memory. Repetition, formulas, rhythm & rhyme, alliteration, homologies (sound alike) Oral cultures -> additive, rather than subordinate (organizing) more aggregative than analytic rely on redundancy. Conservative, or traditional close to the human lifeworld. Agnostically toned situational rather than abstract homeostatic -> stabilize around ideal meaning. Literacy -> allows us to have a monopoly of control. Mcluhan & ong -> approached the notion of historical development by examining the forms of communication technology that were dominant in each historical era. Ong"s main interest = the way that oral societies and literate societies differ. Emphasis -> study how the change from orality to literacy had significant social, cultural & educational implications. John stuart mill -> both writing & speaking are useable some are more appropriate. Archaeology -> stone age, bronze age, iron age.
