Text: Language: The Social Mirror, 3rd Edition by Elaine Chaika, Honeywell and Honeywell Publishers, Boston, MA 1994.
1. What are the two kinds of oral skills?
2. What kind of culture has an emphasis on a verbal skills?
3. Is an oral culture considered less important or even nonverbal? Explain.
4. If oral cultures are agnostic, does that mean that they don't believe or care about God?
5. How long have writing systems been in existence?
6. Is literacy inborn? Explain.
7.What is orthography?
8. Are people from literate cultures more or less intelligent that people from written cultures?
9. What is the difference between an oral and a literate mind?
10.What is meant by decontextualization?
11."There is no sharp break between oral and literate language." Explain this statement.
12. What are some examples of verbal play?
13. Why does the author talk so much about rapping, rap songs, toasts & blaxploitation films?
14. Explain the following and their significance in Orality:
a. ego-boosting in speech activities
b. ritual insulting
