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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This is what allows us to include signing and orality in the definition of transliteracy as: … the ability to read, …
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This is what allows us to include signing and orality in the definition of transliteracy as: … the ability to read, …
hillary commented on the word orality
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