Orality
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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Orality can be defined as thought and its verbal expression in societies where the technologies of literacy (especially writing and print) 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 the economics, politics and institutional 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.
Walter J. Ong, a key scholar in this field, distinguishes between two forms of orality: ‘primary orality’ and ‘residual orality’.
See also
- Art of memory
- Cultural traditions
- Ethnopoetics
- History of communication
- History of writing
- Intangible culture
- Linguistic anthropology
- Mnemonics
- Oracy
- Oral contract
- Oral history
- Oral interpretation
- Oral law
- Oral literature
- Oral poetry
- Oratory
- Performance poetry
- Storytelling
- World Oral Literature Project
