Dimensions of Orality

This book is an instructive and fascinating journey into the world of human sonority and audibility, which progressively brings us closer to the complexities of what we call orality. Mediated by an exhaustive analysis of its dimensions, it confronts us with both its theoretical position and scientific phonetic evidence about our ability to speak, listen, understand, and therefore interact.

The author tells us that the formal simplicity of orality “corresponds to a complexity of human relationships”; for this reason, it allows us to enter the black box of orality didactics. In this final stage of the book, he offers us clear criteria on how to approach the teaching of orality, without neglecting its interface with another important language skill for individuals: reading.

The act of “hearing reading” encompasses the enjoyment of reading that we experience both when we read silently to ourselves and when we listen to someone else read aloud. The same applies to those of us who enjoy reading aloud and playing with prosody to make the text sound better. Now, all that's left is to listen to the melody that Professor José Cantero has set to this interesting journey into the dimensions of orality.

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