Taylor Mali

Performance or writing space plays a large role in the making of meaning. For example, if Mali's speech was handed to me on a piece of printed paper, I would think it cute but not funny or I might not have even understood the humor in it at all. This is why I saw this performance on you tube. A student made a Prezzi about it and tried to format Mali's facial expressions through the text in the Prezzi and he added the audio of the performance. The spoken word holds so many implications and hidden meanings in it that without the audio, the Prezzi would have fallen flat. Another example of hidden meanings in the spoken word is sarcasm. Sarcasm can never truly be obvious in text without writing the actual word, sarcastic, down. Therefore, writing space does play a large role in what it all means.