单词 | oracy |
释义 | oracyn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1965 |
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