• Orality

    Full definition of orality

    Noun

    orality

    (plural oralities)
    1. The state of being oral
      • 1970, Judah Stampfer, John Donne and the metaphysical gesture, Indeed, this reading is particularly inappropriate among these oralities and physicalities, bordering on cannibalism.
      • 1990, Brian Stock, Listening for the Text: On the Uses of the Past, The oralities and literacies of the past are regularly made the subject of inquiries by linguists, philosophers, theologians, anthropologists,
      • 1998, Gary Genosko, Undisciplined Theory, McLuhan thought that writing was a supplement to speech; in fact, it was sandwiched between two oralities
      • 2002, Jane Dixon, The Changing Chicken: Chooks, Cooks and Culinary Culture, Falk's theory of consumption is based on evidence of a shift in the hierarchy between two oralities: speaking and eating.
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