Orality

Orality is the mode of verbal communication through sounds produced by the human voice and perceived through hearing. It is the first complex mode of communication used in human societies before writing, which is not necessarily born in all primitive cultures. Orality is a communicative form that ranges from the cry of a newborn to the dialogue generated between friends.

Definition

There are two kinds of orality:

• The primary, which refers to cultures that only have her to communicate and that allows memory activation. Oral cultures have a set of knowledge, habits, traditions, representations, symbolisms and meanings that allow them to be discovered.
• Secondary orality is that handled by advanced cultures that have writing. This has become a support for memory.

In orality, the sender-text-receiver relationship is direct and suprasegmental strategies are present. Oral text is perceived from sounds that operate as concrete instances of a system of abstract units, phonemes.

Related documents in Banrepcultural

• Dangers of philosophical orality.. Review by Carlos Sánchez of Estanislao Zuleta's book, Lógica y crítica.

• Center for Oral Memories.. San Andrés Island.

• Culture: Oral tradition. In: Cultural memory of the Pacific.

Documents in The Encyclopedia

Communication Theory and some currents

External links

Intangible heritage. UNESCO. Bibliography[edit]