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Oral Communication: Five Time Periods in The Study of Globalization and Media
Oral Communication: Five Time Periods in The Study of Globalization and Media
1. Oral Communication
Globalization as a social process is characterized by the existence of
global economic, political, cultural, linguistic and environmental
interconnections and flows that make the many of the currently existing
borders and boundaries irrelevant.
Of all forms of media, human speech is the oldest and most enduring.
Humans are allowed to cooperate and communicate through language.
Human ability to move from one place to another and to adapt to a new and
different environment are facilitated by the sharing of information of other
peoples . Languages as a means to develop the ability to communicate
(146)
across culture are the lifeline of globalization. Without language there would
be no globalization; and vice versa, without globalization there would be no
world languages . (147)
2. Script
Writing is humankind’s principal technology for collecting, manipulating,
storing, retrieving, communicating and disseminating information. Writing
may have been invented independently three times in different parts of the
world: in the Near East, China and Mesoamerica. Writing is a system of
graphic marks representing the units of a specific language. Cuneiform
script created in Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, is the only writing system
which can be traced to its earliest prehistoric origin.
Humans communicate and shared knowledge and ideas through script- the
very first writing. The origin of writing was in the form of carvings such as
wood, stone, bones and others. The medium that drove humans to
globalization was the script of Ancient Egyptian written in papyrus (plant).
Written and orderly arrangement of documents pertaining to religious,
cultural, economic and religious practices are done through script for
dissemination to other places. These can also be
handed down from generation to generation. Script is an important tool for
globalization as it considers the integration of economy, politics and culture
to the world. The great civilization from Egypt to Rome and China were
made possible through script . (149)
4. Electronic Media
television . (154)
5. Digital Media