| 单词 |
orality |
| 释义 |
oˈrality
[f. oral + -ity.]
1. The quality of being oral, or orally communicated. Also, preference for or tendency to use spoken forms of language.
1666J. Sergeant Letter of Thanks 108 The Orality of the Rule of Faith. 1946Hansard Commons 17 Oct. 1055 Does the right hon. Gentleman not appreciate that it is the uncertainty about the date when written Questions will be answered which promotes orality? 1967A. L. Lloyd Folk Song in England i. 25 Orality is a most important characteristic..and we have every right to speak of the grandeurs of oral tradition. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Oct. 1323/2 A synthesis of Black orality with White literacy and technocracy. Ibid. 1323/3 The Black man enslaved took his African orality with him.
2. In sense of oral a. 5.
1934Lewin & Zilboorg tr. Fenichel's Outline Clin. Psychoanal. x. 372 Our findings then are:—ambivalence, turning against the ego, orality. 1951W. & J. McCord in Jrnl. Mental Sci. XCVII. 765 (title) The problem of ‘orality’ and of its origin in early childhood.
3. Phonetics. With reference to a sound: the quality or state of being oral (see oral a. 6).
1949Word V. 158 Nasality vs. Orality. 1952A. Cohen Phonemes of Eng. ii. 36 Features that are not actually relevant in distinguishing two phonemes, e.g. alveolarity, plosion, orality..must be taken into account all the same as contributing to the existence of both phonemes. 1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics iv. 155 Orality and voicelessness being regarded as the absence of a feature, nasality and voice, respectively. |
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