# SpokenLanguage

The resource contains data for which the medium of interaction was speech.

This term is an expected value of the property:\
[communicationMode](../properties/modality)

This term is included in the defined term set:\
[CommunicationModeTerms](../defined-term-sets/modalityterms)\


Written language and spoken language are different as a result of the different constraints on interaction. For example, written language typically needs to be explicit about aspects of meaning which are provided by the (shared) context of speech. \
In cultures where writing is not available as a means of recording and storing information, discourse types develop to make it easier to carry out this function using spoken language.

Miller, Jim. 1998. _Spontaneous Spoken Language: Syntax and Discourse._ Oxford: University Press, Incorporated.\
Ong, Walter J. 1988. _Orality and literacy: the technologizing of the word._  London ; New York: Routledge.\
Tannen, Deborah. 1982. _Spoken and written language: exploring orality and literacy_ (Advances in Discourse Processes ; v. 9). Norwood, N.J.: ABLEX Pub. Corp.
