oral transmission
collocation in Englishmeaningsoforalandtransmission
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oral
adjective
uk/ˈɔː.rəl/us/ˈɔːr.əl/
spoken and ...
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transmission
noun
uk/trænzˈmɪʃ.ən/us/trænˈsmɪʃ.ən/
the process of broadcasting or sending out something by radio or television, on the internet, etc., or something that is broadcast or sent ...
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(Definition oforalandtransmissionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoforal transmission
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Certainly, the teaching system crucially depends on and extolsoraltransmissionfrom the guru.
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A broader explanation is needed, one that accounts for the evidence system-wide and that goes beyond recourse to the vagaries oforaltransmission.
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This indeed is a puzzle and, perhaps, forces us to look much more seriously at the possibility oforaltransmissionand contemporary interaction.
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To account for vagaries inoraltransmission, he saturated the score with allusions to other bïlinï and the songs and stories that they spawned over the years.
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Certeau maintains that the construction of meaning was linked tooraltransmission.
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Modal structure is easily changed inoraltransmission.
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The actual learning of the melody was left tooraltransmission, the manuscript with neumes serving only as a memory prop for singer, teacher and leader.
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In other words, didoraltransmissionin the singing schools remain through four centuries so much the same that, for similarly performed liturgies everywhere, the original melodies were purely preserved?
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As is typical in situations oforaltransmission, these things often tended to grow larger and more exaggerated as they passed along the grapevine.
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He had not neglected to investigateoraltransmissionand his first folk-song collection, derived largely from his own fieldwork, appeared in 1891.
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The music carried the associated words along with it, as it were, and the use of existing melodies fostered the process oforaltransmission.
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Village regulation is often thought to rest upon ' custom ' and theoraltransmissionof norms from generation to generation.
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The academic world is worried about being caught byoraltransmissionof information.
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Poliovirus is acquired by faecal-oral ororaltransmission.
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