orality
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8.5
- noun
- /ɔːˈræləti/
- Formal
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oralidad
- The purpose of the traditional freshman composition course, with its syllabus of belles lettres, was always to help students make the transition from orality to literacy, and, given the abysmally poor literacy of today's representative high school graduates, this old task ought to be more important than ever.
- early orality
- orality and textuality
- orality and literacy
Oh, the verbal, the orality of it.
- Oh, the verbal, the orality of it.
Examples
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So now they've killed off this symbol of orality and there are two important things that happened thereafter.
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In many cultures, stories are passed down through orality, allowing traditions to live on without written records.
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And I find the orality of language is where it's most powerful.
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The transition from orality to anality cannot be lost here.
Academic text (1997) -
"The Woman Who Loved a Snake" then is as much about orality and interpersonal and intercultural discourse as it is anything else.
Academic text (1991) -
The bibliographies of Scinto and Ong (Orality) present a wide variety of sources of information on the topic.
Academic text (1992) -
The same kind of complexity arises in an examination of orality, genre classifications, or any number of tribal storytelling characteristics.
Academic text (1996) -
Khalili's practice articulates language, subjectivity, orality and geographical explorations.
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Tedlock conveys a sense of orality and actuality in his written presentation of translated Zuni oral texts.
Academic text (1996) -
In orality, knowledge is ever subject-dependent and ever conditioned by affect, by emotion; in orality, knowledge is, to borrow one of Ong's qualifications, situation-dependent.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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2.3
Language people use with their voice rather than in writing
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3.2
To talk to share ideas or information with others
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3.0
Talking to share information, often by phone or radio
Talking to share information or ideas
Sharing ideas and information by speaking to others
Antonyms
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3.4
Skill to find, understand, and use information in a specific area like digital media
How Oral
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Orality comes from the Latin root orare 'to speak' and is the same root behind words like oral and orator. So orality means communicating by mouth — saying or telling things aloud rather than writing them down.