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单词 postliterate
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postliterate
postliterate adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)pəʊs(t)ˈlɪt(ə)rət/
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U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈlɪdərət/
of or designating a time or milieu characterized by a decline in the importance or prevalence of the written word.
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1957 Amer. Anthropologist 59 871 Preliterate cultures are now being widely and well described, but little anthropological attention has yet been paid to the only postliterate tribe in the world:..the logical positivists.
1960 E. Carpenter & M. McLuhan Explor. in Communication p. xi Postliterate man's electronic media contract the world to a village.
2003 Book Mar. 74/1 In our increasingly postliterate world, Sontag argues, to ‘remember is, more and more, not to recall a story but to be able to call up a picture’.
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