Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Capability of being orally conveyed to another.
  • noun Oral communication.

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  • noun The state of being oral

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Examples

  • But Derico's point was rather that there is no one thing that can be spoken of generically as "orality".

    Archive 2009-02-01 James F. McGrath 2009

  • But Derico's point was rather that there is no one thing that can be spoken of generically as "orality".

    Midwest SBL 2009 James F. McGrath 2009

  • Thomas' work is at it's best when examining the intersection of literacy and 'orality'.

    between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2007

  • Ong is mainly interested in what he calls primary orality, meaning communities who have no contact with the written word whatsoever.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Miglior acque 2006

  • Ong is mainly interested in what he calls primary orality, meaning communities who have no contact with the written word whatsoever.

    Walter J Ong, Orality and Literacy (Routledge, 1982) Miglior acque 2006

  • So built into the translation process was a kind of orality that would be uncommon to most formal written Chinese, but that would be part of both the Indian philosophical tradition since a sutra is a lecture and the informal tradition of philosophical discussion and poetry-writing that was an important part of the social lives of Chinese intellectuals.

    languagehat.com: WRITTEN VERNACULARS IN ASIA. 2004

  • In fact, orality, meaning ` the quality of being oral or orally communicated, 'is already in the British vocabulary as a rare and supposed to be obsolescent word.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 1 1979

  • this Pope Center essay, Prof. Tom Bertonneau argues that many young Americans - those who disdain books and any but the lightest reading - are sliding back into "orality," the state that precedes literacy.

    Phi Beta Cons on National Review Online 2010

  • This is what allows us to include signing and orality in the definition of transliteracy as: … the ability to read, …

    Literacy News – 88th Edition « News « Literacy News 2009

  • This is what allows us to include signing and orality in the definition of transliteracy as: … the ability to read, …

    Literacy News – 83th Edition « News « Literacy News 2009

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  • General Language Term

    the quality of being oral

    formal

    being oral

    Linguistics

    a tendency to favour the spoken rather than the written form of language

    Ling

    (Collins)

    September 4, 2009