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Meaning of "orality" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ORALITY

orality  [ɔːˈrælɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ORALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Orality is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ORALITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

orality

Orality

Orality is thought and verbal expression in societies where the technologies of literacy are unfamiliar to most of the population. The study of orality is closely allied to the study of oral tradition. However, it has broader implications, implicitly touching every aspect of the economics, politics, institutional development, and human development of oral societies. The study of orality has important implications for international development, especially as it relates to the goal of eradicating poverty, as well as to the process of globalization. In his later publications Walter J. Ong, a key scholar in this field, distinguishes between two forms of orality: ‘primary orality’ and ‘secondary orality’. In his earlier publications Ong uses the terms 'primarily oral culture' and 'secondarily oral culture'. He works with the contrast of primary orality and secondary orality as the way to establish what one thing is by indicating what it is not: Secondary orality is not primary orality. In addition, he refers to 'oral residue' and 'residually oral cultures'. Following his example in coining the terms primary orality and secondary orality, we can refer to residual orality.

Definition of orality in the English dictionary

The definition of orality in the dictionary is the quality of being oral. Other definition of orality is a tendency to favour the spoken rather than the written form of language.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ORALITY


amorality
ˌeɪməˈrælɪtɪ
balmorality
ˌbælməˈrælɪtɪ
chirality
kaɪˈrælɪtɪ
collaterality
kəlætəˈrælɪtɪ
corporality
ˌkɔːpəˈrælɪtɪ
generality
ˌdʒɛnəˈrælɪtɪ
gutturality
ˌɡʌtəˈrælɪtɪ
immorality
ˌɪməˈrælɪtɪ
laterality
ˌlætəˈrælɪtɪ
liberality
ˌlɪbəˈrælɪtɪ
literality
ˌlɪtəˈrælɪtɪ
literalness
ˌlɪtəˈrælɪtɪ
morality
məˈrælɪtɪ
peripherality
pəˌrɪfəˈrælɪtɪ
plurality
plʊəˈrælɪtɪ
preternaturality
ˌpriːtəˌnætʃəˈrælɪtɪ
rurality
rʊəˈrælɪtɪ
spirality
spaɪəˈrælɪtɪ
temporality
ˌtɛmpəˈrælɪtɪ
unmorality
ˌʌnməˈrælɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ORALITY

oral
oral eroticism
oral examiner
oral history
oral hygiene
oral hygienist
Oral Law
oral sex
oral society
oral tradition
oral vowel
oralism
oralist
orally
Oran
orang
orang-outang
orang-utan
orange
orange blossom

WORDS THAT END LIKE ORALITY

ability
air quality
augmented reality
confidentiality
equality
functionality
homosexuality
hospitality
in reality
inequality
locality
mortality
municipality
nationality
originality
personality
quality
reality
sexuality
speciality
spirituality

Synonyms and antonyms of orality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «orality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ORALITY

Find out the translation of orality to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of orality from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «orality» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

口述
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

oralidad
570 millions of speakers

English

orality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

orality
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشفهية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

оральность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

oralidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

orality
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´oralité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Orality
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mündlichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

口述
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

게송
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Orality
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

orality
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

orality
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वाडपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sözellik ni- teli¤inin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

oralità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

oralność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

орального
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

oralitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προφορικότητας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oraliteit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

orality
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

muntlighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of orality

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ORALITY»

The term «orality» is regularly used and occupies the 73.928 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ORALITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «orality» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «orality» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about orality

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORALITY»

Discover the use of orality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to orality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Orality and Literacy
Walter J. Ong. by the thousands which would never have seen print before taping was possible. The new medium here reinforces the old, but of course transforms it because it fosters a new, self-consciously informal style, since typographic ...
Walter J. Ong, 2013
2
Orality and Literacy: Reflections Across Disciplines
Through topics as diverse as Aboriginal Canadian societies, Ukrainian-Canadian narratives, and communities in ancient Greece, Medieval Europe, and twentieth-century Asia, these cross-disciplinary essays reveal the powerful ways in which ...
Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Rose Fagan, Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, 2011
3
Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece
Explores the role of written and oral communication in Greece.
Rosalind Thomas, 1992
4
Literacy and Orality
A detailed examination of the relationship between orality and literacy includes the traditions upon which they are based and the functions which they serve as well as the psychological and linguistic processes that influence them.
David R. Olson, Nancy Torrance, 1991
5
Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World: ...
Authors under consideration are Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Isocrates, orators of the Second Sophistic, and Proclus. Cross-cultural studies are included.
Elizabeth Minchin, 2011
6
Vox Intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages
Brings together interrelated essays on aspects of oral production and reception in Western European medieval contexts from modern and post-structuralist perspectives.
Alger Nicolaus Doane, Carol Braun Pasternack, 1991
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Sacred Words: Orality, Literacy and Religion: Orality and ...
Surveying the variety of ways in which written texts and oral discourse were involved in ancient religions, the contributions to this volume show that oral and written forms were intricately connected in both Greek and Roman state and ...
André Lardinois, Josine Blok, M.G.M. van der Poel, 2011
8
The Politics of Orality
This volume represents the sixth in the series on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds.
Craig Richard Cooper, 2007
9
Signs of Orality: The Oral Tradition and Its Influence in ...
This volume presents essays by leading scholars on the nature of orality as represented by the Homeric poems, and the effect of the oral way of thinking on the subsequent literate and literary development of ancient Greek and Roman culture.
E. Anne MacKay, 1999
10
Voice Into Text: Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece ; ...
The book focusses on orality and literacy in ancient Greece, and by bringing together consideration of oral and literate elements and traditions in various genres and practices presents another picture of ancient Greek society and ...
Ian Worthington, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ORALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term orality is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Yugoslavia tribunal: legacy of war
... in previous trials: 'Unfortunately, over time it has moved from a culture of orality, to a way of bucketing information that disallows an objective, ... «Law Gazette, Jul 15»
2
NovaCopper Inc.: NovaCopper Commences Work on the Arctic …
... the Fifth Court of Orality of Circuit of Medellin, Colombia to advance a verbal process. Previously, on April 28, 2014, Sunward received notice ... «The Wall Street Transcript, Jul 15»
3
Memory loss hobbles democracy
For many South Africans, the primary form of archive is the shared story of family, neighbourhood and community — what we call orality. «BDlive, Jul 15»
4
Sixth Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and …
... Late Antiquity; Kristine Rose Beers, Towards an Archaeology of Islamic Bookbinding; and Dana Sajdi, Chained: Orality, Authority and History. «Gulf Times, Jul 15»
5
Connecting for Change -- Going to Jesus First, Instead of the Witch …
The lady who told the story had just learned it in an Orality Training Workshop and immediately shared it with others in a village. In this training ... «Crossmap, Jul 15»
6
New in paperback: 'Everything I Never Told You,' 'Station Eleven …
Wood pointed to other writers who have "bent language, as McBride does, away from formal sense-making and toward private orality," but he ... «cleveland.com, Jun 15»
7
Why Twitter Is the Perfect Platform to Debate Rachel Dolezal
Walter Ong, the scholar who authored the seminal text Orality and Literacy, suggested that the ephemerality of oral speech demanded what he ... «The New Republic, Jun 15»
8
Seed Company Appoints Samuel Chiang as New President and CEO
Chiang joins Seed Company after serving as executive director of International Orality Network, a global network of organizations seeking to ... «Business Wire, Jun 15»
9
The Printing Press is Dead. So Buy My Luther Book on Kindle!
The era that preceded Gutenberg's invention, the theory goes, was a time of fluidity and 'orality'—speeches, plays, songs, and other ... «Patheos, Jun 15»
10
From hardship to harvest: A modern-day Book of Acts in Africa
“It certainly is a work of God,” said Grant Lovejoy, the director of orality strategies at IMB, who has spent time in Africa with Timothy. «The Southern News, Jun 15»

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