thumb|right|upright=1.2|An oral community in Takéo Province|Takéo, [[Cambodia, confronts writing. Modern scholarship has shown that orality is a complex and tenacious social phenomenon.]] Orality is thought and verbal expression in societies, distinct from the technologies of literacy (especially writing and print). The study of orality is closely allied to the study of oral tradition.
thumb|right|upright=1.2|An oral community in Takéo Province|Takéo, [[Cambodia, confronts writing. Modern scholarship has shown that orality is a complex and tenacious social phenomenon.]] Orality is thought and verbal expression in societies, distinct from the technologies of literacy (especially writing and print). The study of orality is closely allied to the study of oral tradition.
The term "orality" has been used in a variety of ways, often to describe, in a generalised fashion, the structures of consciousness found in cultures that do not employ, or employ minimally, the technologies of writing.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).