| In contrast to orality, writing offers to tradition the apparent advantages of physical duration, precision, and detail. |
| My familiarity with the richness and variety of vernacular language inevitably led me to become a proponent of orality in literacy. |
| This shift in sensibility toward orality is not a single literary movement, as it has sometimes been misconstrued. |
| This experience eventually settled and became more uniform through the means and constraints of orality. |
| This influence increases when orality is progressively superseded by the limited literacy of writing and reading. |
| Within the broader Chinese culture, every effort was made to preserve characteristics of orality. |
