orality

English

Etymology

From oral +‎ -ity.

Noun

orality (plural oralities)

1. The state of being oral
   • 1970, Judah Stampfer, John Donne and the metaphysical gesture, page 80:

     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, page 141:

     The oralities and literacies of the past are regularly made the subject of inquiries by linguists, philosophers, theologians, anthropologists,

   • 1998, Gary Genosko, Undisciplined Theory, page 173:

     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, page 21:

     Falk's theory of consumption is based on evidence of a shift in the hierarchy between two oralities: speaking and eating.

Translations

being oral

• Catalan: oralitat f
• French: oralité (fr) f
• Galician: oralidade (gl) f
• German: Oralität (de) f
• Irish: béalaireacht f
• Italian: oralità (it) f
• Portuguese: oralidade f
• Romanian: oralitate (ro) f
• Spanish: oralidad (es) f

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