orality

plural oralities

1. countableuncountableThe state of being oral.

   McLuhan thought that writing was a supplement to speech; in fact, it was sandwiched between two oralities

   1998, Gary Genosko, Undisciplined Theory, page 173

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   Indeed, this reading is particularly inappropriate among these oralities and physicalities, bordering on cannibalism.

   1970, Judah Stampfer, John Donne and the metaphysical gesture, page 80

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

   1990, Brian Stock, Listening for the Text: On the Uses of the Past, page 141

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

   2002, Jane Dixon, The Changing Chicken: Chooks, Cooks and Culinary Culture, page 21