WRITING IS THE MEANS THROUGH WHICH SPECIALLY SPEECH IS TRANSMITTED AND PRESERVED

WRITING IS THE MEANS THROUGH WHICH SPECIALLY SPEECH IS TRANSMITTED AND PRESERVED

Even though, there is a big difference between talking and writing, because in oral communications we use some words, phrases and moods, etc., that never are represented in our written context. On the one hand, our orality includes some special elements with a socio-communicative meanings (e.g. gestures, onomatopoeic sound, etc. who represent our disagreements, likes, etc.), which couldn’t be graphically represented, because they carry a subjective representation of our reality. On the other hand, due to the common changes, orality is not endurable because it is continuously suffering variation, due to social context, and for some languages tend to die. In this case, writing appears like a preserver of the culture, because we write in a formal way, it doesn’t matter if it is not a literal transcription of our orality. For example if in our talking we use phrases like wanna or gonna, it has been common that we change for -want to- or -going to- as a way to represent and preserve the formality, and for faciliting a normal comprehension for foreign people who don’t know about theses cultural aspects.