Communication is one of the key components of 21st century learning, its dynamics involves oral and written cultures. The advancement on human knowledge helps in comparing and differentiating orality and literacy. These cultures are still practiced because of its permanence in conveying and disseminating ideas, messages, knowledge, etc. This indicates that both exhibit conservatism by the judgment that they have essentially valuable objects, objects that is thought to transcend the everyday uses of language.

         On the differences, literature requires materials to be able to produce content while orality requires none but our verbal capacity. Speakers and listeners tend to be more involved than writers and readers, written language is said to convey the detachment of the communicator through written literary structures. Primary oral culture has specific context compared to literary culture wherein there has been differences due to dictionaries that brings various meaning to a word that brought many linguistic discrepancies.     

     The continuous discussion between its difference is an additive process, though orality came first and existed on its own, the development of literary culture made communication better and helped in the development of different principles through time. 

The intersubjectivity of orality is characterized by a complex component of oral mode of expression and communication, and such component is particularly embodied in the social relationship, based on speaking and hearing interactions. Utilization of media is in plethora for the last centuries and is totally dominated by the sense of closure, slowly erasing the being of oral context. It is only orality that makes communication more genuine than utilization of media. 

The media model of communication exhibits chirographic conditioning by distorting the core and eradicating the essence of communication. Media disregards the structure of how to properly convey a message by not expecting any response, the reason behind this is the lack of any specific audience that the sender is aiming to connect with. The audience keeps on taking what is displayed before them. This practice creates a shift in people’s mentality to favor literacy more than orality, thus the interplay of media, oral culture is losing its footing.

References:

Ong, Walter J. (1982). Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. New York:                     Routledge.

Akinnaso, F. N. (1985). On the Similarities Between Spoken and Written Language.                          Language and Speech. 28(4): 323–359.

New Learning: Ong on the Differences between Orality and Literacy. (2018, August 22).                    Retrieved from New Learning Online:                                                                                                http://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/ong-on-the-differences-between-orality-and-literacy

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