oral culture

collocation in English

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oral
adjective
uk
/ˈɔː.rəl/us
/ˈɔːr.əl/
spoken and ...
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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 oforalandculturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoforal culture

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These are prints that appeal tooralculture.
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Another effect of the underlyingoralculture, of no less consequence for the present study, is the creation of a characteristic type of "supra-utilitarian" knowledge.
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The ostensible exile of beliefs about the supernatural out of written intooralcultureincreasingly looks like an optical illusion for the same reason.
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But texts are also part of this nexus, along withoralcultureand the passage back and forth from one to the other.
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The content of these volumes suggests a compositeoralculturethat was now being circulated in print and made accessible to an urban audience.
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In addition, this focus onoralculturedistorts the significance of black literary production.
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He proves particularly innovative when analysing a collection of songs and stories that allow him to delve into theoralcultureof the period.
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Notwithstanding the guru's importance, the transmission of texts from teacher to students is not the product of a 'primaryoralculture'.
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He describes quite well the indescribability of the trickster inoralculture, and he deftly illuminates some ways in which history and myth can reinterpret one another.
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Students did not learn to read meaning by learning to decipher letters; rather, reading enlisted the authority oforalculturein the deciphering of a written text.
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Development agents learn to both appreciate and lever the power oforalcultureand the transformations that are possible within it.
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The mammoths are depicted as having near human intelligence and anoralculturethat goes back millions of years.
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The resistance was also expressed in theoralculture, stories, traditions and legends.
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Oralculturegradually found the need to store what was said for long periods of time, and slowly developed scribal culture.
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Understanding between nations may depend to some degree on understandingoralculture.
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One could become literate for anoralculture(with no written language or recorded media) only by extended conversation.
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The transition from thisoralculturetakes place when the child is taught to read and write.
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The film also displays the intense spirit of community that underlies educational practises in anoralculture.
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Gaelic was the language of the bardic tradition, which provided a mechanism for the transference oforalculturefrom generation to generation.
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The researchers chose to use an audio form of media because of the rural nature of their research area, meaning a strongoralcultureand relatively low literacy levels.
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