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Definition of Orality
1. the state of being produced orally [n -TIES]
Medical Definition of Orality
1. In freudian psychology, a term used to denote the psychic organization derived from, and characteristic of, the oral period of psychosexual development. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orality
Literary usage of Orality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin (1997)
"CHAPTER 2: FROM orality TO WRITING Tracing the origin of language to early nuclei
of agriculture, as many authors do (Peter Bellwood, Paul K. Benedict, ..."
2. Studies in Napoleonic Statesmanship: Germany by Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher (1903)
"Strombeck is a warm advocate of the merits of orality, although it seldom happened
that a ... orality was especially valuable in small criminal cases, ..."
3. The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communicationby Heather A. Horst, Daniel Miller by Heather A. Horst, Daniel Miller (2006)
"... wordplay and orality in the West Indies (and Afro- American culture generally).
As he notes, 'the ability to contend with words is, then, a social skill ..."
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