literate culture

collocation in English

meaningsofliterateandculture

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literate
adjective
uk
/ˈlɪt.ər.ət/us
/ˈlɪt̬.ɚ.ət/
able to read ...
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culture
noun
uk
/ˈkʌl.tʃər/us
/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ/
the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a ...
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(Definition ofliterateandculturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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More broadly, the mid-sixteenth century was a time in whichliteratecultureof all kinds threatened to supplant ways and means of creation that depended on orality.
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These appropriation procedures are the main axis of aliterateculture, in which the tradition of the canonic past is being constantly rewritten.
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The transition from a predominantlyliteratecultureto an electronic culture is already engendering changes in the ways in which we think, write and exchange ideas.
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Furthermore, it is conceivable that such genre distinctions are "foreign" to some literate cultures.
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This moved society on from an oral culture to aliterateculturebut also introduced a capitalist society where there was clear class distinction and individualism.
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This stage seems to be characteristic of the arithmetical activities in all early literate cultures during the initial periods of literacy.
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Children, from birth on (and possibly even earlier) participate as active agents in oral (and in most literate cultures soon thereafter in written) language practices.
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At this point ancient art begins, for the older literate cultures.
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The profession, previously found in all literate cultures in some form, lost most of its importance and status with the advent of printing.
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Oral poetry exists most clearly within oral cultures, but it can survive, and indeed flourish, in highly literate cultures.
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Poetry appears among the earliest records of most literate cultures, with poetic fragments found on early monoliths, runestones and stelae.
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Oral cultures were additive rather than subordinate, closer to the human life world, and more situational and participatory than the more abstract qualities of literate cultures.
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