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This document discusses the limitations of using "orality" to characterize speech events and cultures. It argues that orality is an insufficient, negative, obsolete, phonocentric, logocentric, and uniformitarian term. The characteristics traditionally associated with orality are better framed as "somatic communication". Orality overlooks the complexity and interpenetration of oral and literate modes of communication in practice. No clear divide exists between orality and literacy, as demonstrated by studies

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