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  • When these effects seem correlated in the reader's subvocal production of the text, suspended or inward aurality is rendered thematic as well as systemic.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • The keepers of the brand have decided that aurality is a key part of the Jag experience, so they've crafted special sound filters to pipe engine noises into the cabin.

    Wheels That Need No Reinventing 2010

  • The Romantic laureate is to be felt beyond the grave by the Victorians, and by their own poet, not in the wispy or whispering touch of his breathed words but in the abstract feelings generated from the written traces of their prophetic aura of aurality.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • No, I'm kidding, but I seriously WOULD like to see if there's any way to creatively use things like podcasting to test out hypotheses related to orality/aurality.

    Did Matthew Know Luke? A Neglected Angle on the Synoptic Problem James F. McGrath 2009

  • From what I understand, during the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance, reading was so linked to aurality that even when individuals read to themselves, they did just that--moved their lips and pronounced the words sotte voce.

    Do Not Disturb Julianne Douglas 2008

  • They do not line up in fixed columns, with temporality, convention, and aurality in one row, and space, nature, and visuality in the other.

    Ekphrasis and the Other William John Thomas 1994

  • Of course much of the aurality of the text is lost in translation.

    The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow 2010

  • It's always a mistake to leave home without my camera .... but yesterday I did, so, after lunch, hoping my aurality would be heightend, I went to check out Bill Fontana's installation in the rotunda of City Hall.

    ZYZZYVASPEAKS 2009

  • White Teeth is a feast of aurality, of overlapping, interweaving, interbreeding modes of speech.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk 2009

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