| Within the broader Chinese culture, every effort was made to preserve characteristics of orality. |
| This shift in sensibility toward orality is not a single literary movement, as it has sometimes been misconstrued. |
| Regardless of the degree of complexity, the interactive component of orality cannot be maintained in writing. |
| When literacy and orality are not viewed within a dichotomous framework, then memory is no longer separate from literacy. |
| It is spatialized vertically, organized chromatically, and this hierarchical spatialization is logocentric in its opposition between orality and literacy. |
| Yet the study remains significant for its exploration of the interface between orality and literacy within a traditional society. |
