单词 | postliterate |
释义 | > as lemmaspostliterate postliterate adj. Brit. /(ˌ)pəʊs(t)ˈlɪt(ə)rət/ , 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.ΚΠ 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’. < as lemmas |
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