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    Walter Ong identified nine differences between primarily oral cultures and literary cultures. Oral cultures are additive, relying on conjunctions, and aggregative rather than analytic. Knowledge is passed down through stories and imparted by elders through real experiences. Words not regularly used can be forgotten, as there are no records like encyclopedias. A primarily oral culture may be illiterate but is not necessarily primitive, as literacy involves both oral and written elements. Communication is intersubjective, involving a complex series of actions between sender, message, medium and receiver. Media communication is generally one-way without feedback, unlike human interactions.

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    Walter Ong identified nine differences between primarily oral cultures and literary cultures. Oral cultures are additive, relying on conjunctions, and aggregative rather than analytic. Knowledge is passed down through stories and imparted by elders through real experiences. Words not regularly used can be forgotten, as there are no records like encyclopedias. A primarily oral culture may be illiterate but is not necessarily primitive, as literacy involves both oral and written elements. Communication is intersubjective, involving a complex series of actions between sender, message, medium and receiver. Media communication is generally one-way without feedback, unlike human interactions.

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    Walter Ong identified nine differences between primarily oral cultures and literary cultures. Oral cultures are additive, relying on conjunctions, and aggregative rather than analytic. Knowledge is passed down through stories and imparted by elders through real experiences. Words not regularly used can be forgotten, as there are no records like encyclopedias. A primarily oral culture may be illiterate but is not necessarily primitive, as literacy involves both oral and written elements. Communication is intersubjective, involving a complex series of actions between sender, message, medium and receiver. Media communication is generally one-way without feedback, unlike human interactions.

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    Cyrus Lem R.

    Montes
    BASS POLITICAL SCIENCE ACTIVITY 1
    SECTION N

    According to Ong, there are nine differences between a primary oral


    culture and a literary culture.A primarily oral culture is additive rather than
    subordinate.Rather than a compund sentence, their writing style uses
    conjuctions such as for, nor,yet, and and.

    is also aggregative rather than analytic. In oral cultures, adjectives are


    placed before a noun to enhance the discussion experience. For example “That
    lady is wearing a beautiful dress.” In a primary oral culture, it is the stories
    passed down from generation to generation that serves as the basis of
    knowledge on day-to-day lives.

    Due to this conservative or traditionalist lifestyle, elders have the task of


    imparting knowledge to the community. A primary oral culture absorbs new
    information by relating it to a concrete object or a living thing visible to the
    naked eye. Knowledge is also imparted through a real experience that is
    relatable to the receiver.

    The oral mind is uninterested in definitions (Luria 1976, pp. 48-99).


    Which means that in an oral society, words not in circulation become
    forgotten.This is due to the fact that there are no encyclopedias to record and
    preserve terminologies.

    From what I have gathered from Ong’s differences between a primarily


    oral culture and a literary culture, a primarily oral culture may be illiterate,
    but are not necessarily primitive. An oral person may be literary and a literary
    person must be oral. Before we become literate, we must first become oral.We
    can exchange knowledge through discourse or through writing. We have
    advanced enough to be able to be both oral and literary students and teachers.

    Walter Ong stated that communication is intersubjective. This means that


    communication is not a fixed singular process. Communication is a complex
    series of actions between the sender, message, medium, receiver and vice-
    versa. Communication is part in every aspect of our lives. Even before we are
    able to speak we already communicate. As infants humans cry to signal their
    hunger.

    Communication from media is fairly one-way. The message from the


    sender is transmitted to the receiver without feedback. This is not possible in a
    human communication. Because in human communication there is always a
    response.

    The media model of communication shows chirographic conditioning in a


    sense that written texts communicate in a one-way platform. Media
    communication does not expect a feedback. Text written in media have no
    specific or targeted audience. Information flows through to the audience but
    no response goes back to the writer.
    Cyrus Lem R. Montes
    BASS POLITICAL SCIENCE ACTIVITY 1
    SECTION N

    References

    Ong, W.J. (1982). Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word.


    London: Methuen, pp. 1-5,31, 37-49, 170

    “Ong on the Differences Between Orality and Literacy” Retrieved from :


    https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/ong-on-the-
    differences-between-orality-and-literacy

    Ong, W.J. (2002). Orality and Literacy. London: Routledge.

    Jkendell (2012).Orality and Literacy – In What Ways Are Oral and Literate
    Cultures Similar? Retrieved from:
    http://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540sept12/2012/09/30/1150/

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