Griot oral narrative and performance connects memory, authority, audience, occasion, and mediation within situated traditions rather than treating history as a fixed verbal archive. Responsive performance can shape relationships, while accuracy still requires evidence and applications elsewhere must distinguish learning from the system from claiming cultural equivalence.
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What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Codes & Communication Systems
Articulates signs and conventions through which information or meaning can be represented, recorded or transmitted. Interpretation depends on the relevant language, practices, users and context, not on a sign looking self-evident.