The biggest waves in the world generated a wholly oral society.

Does Greenfield really believe that oral societies lack these functions of language?

This translation helped to foster the transition between a primarily oral society, to one centered on a written language.

Because oral societies have no effective access to writing and print technologies, they must invest considerable energy in basic information management.

In oral societies, Crain writes, "words have their present meanings but no older ones.

The audio archives are particularly important since Rwanda is an oral society with an oral tradition.

The absence of this technology in oral societies limits the development of complex ideas and the institutions that depend on them.

Mandinkas live in an oral society.

Schmandt-Besserat has worked on the origin of writing and counting, and the nature of information management systems in oral societies.

Nothing analogous exists in oral societies.

The Kingdom of Alba was overwhelmingly an oral society dominated by Gaelic culture.

They have little regard for tradition and when compared with oral societies, their ways of thinking are apt to be more rational, linear and impersonal.

Oral societies and colonial experiences: Sub-Saharan Africa and the de-facto power of the written word.

In the Early Middle Ages, Scotland was overwhelmingly an oral society and education was verbal rather than literary.

However, it has broader implications, implicitly touching every aspect of the economics, politics, institutional development, and human development of oral societies.

Ong draws his examples from both primary oral societies, and societies with a very high 'oral residue'.

He later drew on this experience to develop the 'memory theatre' or 'memory palace', a system for mnemonics widely used in oral societies until the Renaissance.

Sanskrit was spoken in an oral society, and the oral tradition was maintained through the development of early classical Sanskrit literature.

He is not, he claims, denying the existence of social change in oral societies, nor of the 'survivals' which this change leaves in its wake.

Oral societies can mount strong resistance to literate technologies, as vividly shown in the arguments of Socrates against writing in Plato's Phaedrus.

One of the functions of a poet in a traditional oral society was to give this historical dimension, to connect his listeners with their past and project a future for them.

The latter refers to the tendency of oral societies, such as that of Europe in the medieval period, to view knowledge as the product, expression, and property of the collective.

More remarkably he asserts that "Soviet concern with media results is natural to any oral society where interdependence is the result of instant interplay of cause and effect in the total structure.

It is necessary to take a long view: much of what we see as "law" in our culture is in fact a product of print and would not be conceivable in oral societies.

Oral societies conserve their limited capacity to store information, and retain the relevance of their information to the interest of their present members, by shedding memories that have lost their past significance.