Oratory or the art of public speaking is considered a literary art. It conveys a speech as a means of performing rhetoric. 

Oratory

Types of Oral Tradition

An ancient human tradition found everywhere in the world. The earliest poetry is believed to have been recited or sung as a way of remembering history, genealogy, and law.

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Literature most broadly is all written work in addition to “oral literature”. 

Literature

The study of language. Topics include language form, meaning, context and social, cultural and historical influences.

Linguistics

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A type of communication that usually describes categories of art or entertainment based on agreed-upon conventions.


*Works can fit into multiple genres 

Genre

Critical Practices in Literature 

Oral Literature/ Oral Tradition 

Around the 4th millennium BC, the complexity of trade and administration in Mesopotamia allowed writing to become a dependable method of recording transactions. Although, in both ancient Egypt and Mesoamerica, "writing may have already emerged because of the need to record historical and environmental events." 

The History of Writing

Types of Literature

The research literature in any given scientific field consists of all the published research in that area. It primarily includes articles in professional journals and scholarly books, while excluding sources intended for the general public, such as self-help books, dictionary entries, and websites, which lack rigorous peer review.

Research Literature

- Computational
- Psycholinguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Neurolinguistics
- Semiotics
- Syntax
- Pragmatics
- Semantics
- Applied linguistics
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Sub-fields of linguistics

-  Menn, L. (2022). Linguistic Society of America. Retrieved February 6, 2022, from https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/neurolinguistics#:~:text=Neurolinguistics%20is%20the%20study%20of,it%20in%20our%20everyday%20lives. 

References of Linguistics 

Language is a formal system of communication that is structured by a set of rules, known as grammar, and utilizes a vocabulary of words, referred to as a lexicon.

Language

Code-switching, within the disciplines of linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP), is the phenomenon where a speaker or text alternates between two or more distinct languages during a single communication or document. A common example of this practice is a mixed-language sentence that seamlessly combines vocabulary from both English and Chinese.

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