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单词 oracy
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oracyn.

Brit. /ˈɔːrəsi/, U.S. /ˈɔrəsi/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin ōr- , ōs , -acy suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin ōr-, ōs mouth (see oral adj.) + -acy suffix, after literacy n. (see quot. 1965).
Education and Linguistics.
Competence in oral language; the ability to express oneself fluently and grammatically in speech. Also: the oral transmission of culture, ideas, etc.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > rhetoric > [noun]
rhetoricc1330
pronunciation?a1439
rhetory?a1500
well-speaking1511
oratorya1522
rhetorism1569
declaiming1577
pronouncec1600
acroama1603
eloquence1623
rhetoricalness1670
hypocritic1776
union1834
Speakership1887
oracy1965
society > communication > expression > [noun] > means of > oral transmission of poetry, etc.
oracy1965
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > recitation of poetry > [noun] > oral transmission of poetry
oracy1965
1965 A. Wilkinson Spoken Eng. 14 The term we suggest for general ability in the oral skills is oracy; one who has those skills is orate, one without them inorate.
1967 Daily Mirror 16 Oct. 18 The team is making a three-year investigation into oracy..with a £15,000 grant from the Schools Council.
1972 T. A. Shippey Old Eng. Verse iv. 89 Though literacy and the fixed text may have killed ‘oracy’ in the long run, the change need not have happened as quickly as in the present century.
1988 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 14 204 The BaKongo movements appear to have experienced, and operated between, both modes, the oral and the literate, suggesting a complex co-existence rather than a simple shift from oracy to literacy.
1993 Times Educ. Suppl. 5 Mar. (Extra Eng. Suppl.) p. iv/5 In the past, the association's work on oracy has been influential in securing a more important place for speaking and listening in the national curriculum.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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