Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Oral tradition

Index Oral tradition

Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication where in knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved and transmitted orally from one generation to another. [1]

118 relations: Aesthetics, Alliteration, American Indian elder, Ancient Greek, Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, Assonance, Śrauta, Bard, Beowulf, Biblical studies, Brian Stock (historian), Brothers Grimm, Buddhism, Chiastic structure, Chinese whispers, Circa, Cognate, Communication, Communication theory, Composition (language), Cross-cultural communication, Cultural history, Culture, David Henige, Diglossia, Discipline (academia), Eastern Herzegovinian dialect, English poetry, Epic poetry, Eric A. Havelock, Film studies, Folk process, Folklore, Germanic peoples, Guru, Hadith, Hermeneutics, Hinduism, Homer, Homeric Question, Iceland, Iliad, Intangible cultural heritage, Integrity, Internet, Interpersonal communication, Jainism, Jan Vansina, John Miles Foley, John Scheid, ..., Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast, Larry Benson, Law of the jungle, Linda Dégh, Linguistics, Literacy, Literature, Marshall McLuhan, Marta Weigle, Mass media, Media studies, Michael Witzel, Mnemonic, Mora (linguistics), Morphology (linguistics), Mukhya Upanishads, Narrative, Nationalism, Odyssey, Oral history, Oral law, Oral literature, Oral Torah, Oral Tradition (journal), Oral-formulaic composition, Orality, Parampara, Paul Zumthor, Philosophy, Popular culture, Postcolonialism, Psychodynamics, Psychology, Rescue archaeology, Rhetoric, Riddle, Rigveda, Romanticism, Rudyard Kipling, Rural community development, Saga, Sanskrit prosody, Scientific method, Secondary orality, Semiotics, Signal-to-noise ratio, Slavs, Society of Jesus, Sushruta Samhita, Syntax, Testimony, Textuality, The Jungle Book, The Singer of Tales, Tradition, Traditional knowledge, Turkology, Type scene, Understanding Media, University of Missouri, Vasily Radlov, Vedas, Vedic chant, Vuk Karadžić, Walter J. Ong, World Oral Literature Project, Writing system, Yugoslavia. Expand index (68 more) »

Aesthetics

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

New!!: Oral tradition and Aesthetics · See more »

Alliteration

Alliteration is a figure of speech and a stylistic literary device which is identified by the repeated sound of the first or second letter in a series of words, or the repetition of the same letter sounds in stressed syllables of a phrase.

New!!: Oral tradition and Alliteration · See more »

American Indian elder

In American Indian education, within each tribe elders, "are repositories of cultural and philosophical knowledge and are the transmitters of such information,"Medicine, Dr.

New!!: Oral tradition and American Indian elder · See more »

Ancient Greek

The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.

New!!: Oral tradition and Ancient Greek · See more »

Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur

Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (September 18, 1888 – September 9, 1971) was a scholar of early English, German, and Old Norse literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

New!!: Oral tradition and Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur · See more »

Assonance

Assonance is a resemblance in the sounds of words or syllables either between their vowels (e.g., meat, bean) or between their consonants (e.g., keep, cape).

New!!: Oral tradition and Assonance · See more »

Śrauta

Śrauta is a Sanskrit word that means "belonging to śruti", that is, anything based on the Vedas of Hinduism.

New!!: Oral tradition and Śrauta · See more »

Bard

In medieval Gaelic and British culture, a bard was a professional story teller, verse-maker and music composer, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or noble), to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.

New!!: Oral tradition and Bard · See more »

Beowulf

Beowulf is an Old English epic story consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines.

New!!: Oral tradition and Beowulf · See more »

Biblical studies

Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible (the Tanakh and the New Testament).

New!!: Oral tradition and Biblical studies · See more »

Brian Stock (historian)

Brian Stock (born June 8, 1939), is a citizen of Canada and France.

New!!: Oral tradition and Brian Stock (historian) · See more »

Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm (die Brüder Grimm or die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, were German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore during the 19th century.

New!!: Oral tradition and Brothers Grimm · See more »

Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

New!!: Oral tradition and Buddhism · See more »

Chiastic structure

Also, this article is about the literary technique.

New!!: Oral tradition and Chiastic structure · See more »

Chinese whispers

Chinese whispers is the British term for the game known as telephone in the United States and other Anglophone countries.

New!!: Oral tradition and Chinese whispers · See more »

Circa

Circa, usually abbreviated c., ca. or ca (also circ. or cca.), means "approximately" in several European languages (and as a loanword in English), usually in reference to a date.

New!!: Oral tradition and Circa · See more »

Cognate

In linguistics, cognates are words that have a common etymological origin.

New!!: Oral tradition and Cognate · See more »

Communication

Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.

New!!: Oral tradition and Communication · See more »

Communication theory

Communication theory is a field of information theory and mathematics that studies the technical process of information and the process of human communication.

New!!: Oral tradition and Communication theory · See more »

Composition (language)

The term composition (from Latin com- "with" and ponere "to place"), in written language, refers to the body of important features established by the author in their creation of literature.

New!!: Oral tradition and Composition (language) · See more »

Cross-cultural communication

Cross-cultural communication is a field of study that looks at how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate, in similar and different ways among themselves, and how they endeavour to communicate across cultures.

New!!: Oral tradition and Cross-cultural communication · See more »

Cultural history

Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience.

New!!: Oral tradition and Cultural history · See more »

Culture

Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies.

New!!: Oral tradition and Culture · See more »

David Henige

David Patrick Henige (born 1938) is an American historian, bibliographer, academic librarian and Africanist scholar.

New!!: Oral tradition and David Henige · See more »

Diglossia

In linguistics, diglossia is a situation in which two dialects or languages are used by a single language community.

New!!: Oral tradition and Diglossia · See more »

Discipline (academia)

An academic discipline or academic field is a branch of knowledge.

New!!: Oral tradition and Discipline (academia) · See more »

Eastern Herzegovinian dialect

The Eastern Herzegovinian dialect (Serbo-Croatian: istočnohercegovački/источнохерцеговачки or istočnohercegovačko-krajiški/источнохерцеговачко-крајишки) is the most widespread subdialect of the Shtokavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian, both by territory and the number of speakers.

New!!: Oral tradition and Eastern Herzegovinian dialect · See more »

English poetry

This article focuses on poetry written in English from the United Kingdom: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland (and Ireland before 1922).

New!!: Oral tradition and English poetry · See more »

Epic poetry

An epic poem, epic, epos, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the moral universe that their descendants, the poet and his audience, must understand to understand themselves as a people or nation.

New!!: Oral tradition and Epic poetry · See more »

Eric A. Havelock

Eric Alfred Havelock (3 June 1903 – 4 April 1988) was a British classicist who spent most of his life in Canada and the United States.

New!!: Oral tradition and Eric A. Havelock · See more »

Film studies

Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films.

New!!: Oral tradition and Film studies · See more »

Folk process

In the study of folklore, the folk process is the way folk material, especially stories, music, and other art, is transformed and re-adapted in the process of its transmission from person to person and from generation to generation.

New!!: Oral tradition and Folk process · See more »

Folklore

Folklore is the expressive body of culture shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group.

New!!: Oral tradition and Folklore · See more »

Germanic peoples

The Germanic peoples (also called Teutonic, Suebian, or Gothic in older literature) are an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group of Northern European origin.

New!!: Oral tradition and Germanic peoples · See more »

Guru

Guru (गुरु, IAST: guru) is a Sanskrit term that connotes someone who is a "teacher, guide, expert, or master" of certain knowledge or field.

New!!: Oral tradition and Guru · See more »

Hadith

Ḥadīth (or; حديث, pl. Aḥādīth, أحاديث,, also "Traditions") in Islam refers to the record of the words, actions, and the silent approval, of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

New!!: Oral tradition and Hadith · See more »

Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts.

New!!: Oral tradition and Hermeneutics · See more »

Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or a way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent.

New!!: Oral tradition and Hinduism · See more »

Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.

New!!: Oral tradition and Homer · See more »

Homeric Question

The Homeric Question concerns the doubts and consequent debate over the identity of Homer, the authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey, and their historicity (especially concerning the ''Iliad'').

New!!: Oral tradition and Homeric Question · See more »

Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

New!!: Oral tradition and Iceland · See more »

Iliad

The Iliad (Ἰλιάς, in Classical Attic; sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer.

New!!: Oral tradition and Iliad · See more »

Intangible cultural heritage

An intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a practice, representation, expression, knowledge, or skill, as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts, and cultural spaces that are considered by UNESCO to be part of a place's cultural heritage.

New!!: Oral tradition and Intangible cultural heritage · See more »

Integrity

Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles, or moral uprightness.

New!!: Oral tradition and Integrity · See more »

Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

New!!: Oral tradition and Internet · See more »

Interpersonal communication

Interpersonal communication is an exchange of information between two or more people.

New!!: Oral tradition and Interpersonal communication · See more »

Jainism

Jainism, traditionally known as Jain Dharma, is an ancient Indian religion.

New!!: Oral tradition and Jainism · See more »

Jan Vansina

Jan Vansina (14 September 1929 – 8 February 2017) was a Belgian historian and anthropologist regarded as an authority on the history of Central Africa.

New!!: Oral tradition and Jan Vansina · See more »

John Miles Foley

John Miles Foley (January 22, 1947 – May 3, 2012) was a scholar of comparative oral tradition, particularly medieval and Old English literature, Homer and Serbian epic.

New!!: Oral tradition and John Miles Foley · See more »

John Scheid

John Scheid (born 1946 in Luxembourg under the first name Jean) is a French historian.

New!!: Oral tradition and John Scheid · See more »

Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast

The Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast (Кара-Киргизская автономная область; Кыргыз автономия облусу), abbreviated as Kara-Kirghiz AO (Кара-Киргизская АО; Кыргыз АО) or KAO (КАО; КАО) in the former region of Soviet Central Asia, was created on 14 October 1924 within the Russian SFSR from the predominantly Kyrgyz part of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

New!!: Oral tradition and Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast · See more »

Larry Benson

Larry Benson (1929–2015) was a professor of medieval literature at Harvard University.

New!!: Oral tradition and Larry Benson · See more »

Law of the jungle

"The law of the jungle" is an expression that means "every man for himself", "anything goes", "survival of the strongest", "survival of the fittest", "kill or be killed", "dog eat dog" or "eat or be eaten".

New!!: Oral tradition and Law of the jungle · See more »

Linda Dégh

Linda Dégh was a folklorist and professor of Folklore & Ethnomusicology at Indiana University.

New!!: Oral tradition and Linda Dégh · See more »

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.

New!!: Oral tradition and Linguistics · See more »

Literacy

Literacy is traditionally meant as the ability to read and write.

New!!: Oral tradition and Literacy · See more »

Literature

Literature, most generically, is any body of written works.

New!!: Oral tradition and Literature · See more »

Marshall McLuhan

Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911December 31, 1980) was a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual.

New!!: Oral tradition and Marshall McLuhan · See more »

Marta Weigle

Marta Weigle (July 3, 1944 – June 14, 2018) was an American anthropologist and folklorist.

New!!: Oral tradition and Marta Weigle · See more »

Mass media

The mass media is a diversified collection of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication.

New!!: Oral tradition and Mass media · See more »

Media studies

Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media.

New!!: Oral tradition and Media studies · See more »

Michael Witzel

Michael Witzel (born July 18, 1943) is a German-American philologist and academic.

New!!: Oral tradition and Michael Witzel · See more »

Mnemonic

A mnemonic (the first "m" is silent) device, or memory device, is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval (remembering) in the human memory.

New!!: Oral tradition and Mnemonic · See more »

Mora (linguistics)

A mora (plural morae or moras; often symbolized μ) is a unit in phonology that determines syllable weight, which in some languages determines stress or timing.

New!!: Oral tradition and Mora (linguistics) · See more »

Morphology (linguistics)

In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language.

New!!: Oral tradition and Morphology (linguistics) · See more »

Mukhya Upanishads

Mukhya Upanishads, also known as Principal Upanishads, are the most ancient, widely studied Upanishads of Hinduism.

New!!: Oral tradition and Mukhya Upanishads · See more »

Narrative

A narrative or story is a report of connected events, real or imaginary, presented in a sequence of written or spoken words, or still or moving images, or both.

New!!: Oral tradition and Narrative · See more »

Nationalism

Nationalism is a political, social, and economic system characterized by the promotion of the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining sovereignty (self-governance) over the homeland.

New!!: Oral tradition and Nationalism · See more »

Odyssey

The Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια Odýsseia, in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

New!!: Oral tradition and Odyssey · See more »

Oral history

Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews.

New!!: Oral tradition and Oral history · See more »

Oral law

An oral law is a code of conduct in use in a given culture, religion or community application, by which a body of rules of human behaviour is transmitted by oral tradition and effectively respected, or the single rule that is orally transmitted.

New!!: Oral tradition and Oral law · See more »

Oral literature

Oral literature or folk literature corresponds in the sphere of the spoken (oral) word to literature as literature operates in the domain of the written word.

New!!: Oral tradition and Oral literature · See more »

Oral Torah

According to Rabbinic Judaism, the Oral Torah or Oral Law (lit. "Torah that is on the mouth") represents those laws, statutes, and legal interpretations that were not recorded in the Five Books of Moses, the "Written Torah" (lit. "Torah that is in writing"), but nonetheless are regarded by Orthodox Jews as prescriptive and co-given.

New!!: Oral tradition and Oral Torah · See more »

Oral Tradition (journal)

Oral Tradition is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1986 by John Miles Foley covering studies in oral tradition and related fields.

New!!: Oral tradition and Oral Tradition (journal) · See more »

Oral-formulaic composition

Oral-formulaic composition is a theory that originated in the scholarly study of epic poetry and was developed in the second quarter of the 20th century.

New!!: Oral tradition and Oral-formulaic composition · See more »

Orality

Orality is thought and verbal expression in societies where the technologies of literacy (especially writing and print) are unfamiliar to most of the population.

New!!: Oral tradition and Orality · See more »

Parampara

Parampara (Sanskrit: परम्परा, paramparā) denotes a succession of teachers and disciples in traditional Vedic culture and Indian religions such as Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism.

New!!: Oral tradition and Parampara · See more »

Paul Zumthor

Paul Zumthor, (August 5, 1915 – January 11, 1995) was a medievalist, literary historian and linguist.

New!!: Oral tradition and Paul Zumthor · See more »

Philosophy

Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.

New!!: Oral tradition and Philosophy · See more »

Popular culture

Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.

New!!: Oral tradition and Popular culture · See more »

Postcolonialism

Postcolonialism or postcolonial studies is the academic study of the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the human consequences of the control and exploitation of colonised people and their lands.

New!!: Oral tradition and Postcolonialism · See more »

Psychodynamics

Psychodynamics, also known as psychodynamic psychology, in its broadest sense, is an approach to psychology that emphasizes systematic study of the psychological forces that underlie human behavior, feelings, and emotions and how they might relate to early experience.

New!!: Oral tradition and Psychodynamics · See more »

Psychology

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.

New!!: Oral tradition and Psychology · See more »

Rescue archaeology

Rescue archaeology, sometimes called preventive archaeology, salvage archaeology, commercial archaeology, contract archaeology, or compliance archaeology, is state-sanctioned, for-profit archaeological survey and excavation carried out in advance of construction or other land development.

New!!: Oral tradition and Rescue archaeology · See more »

Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of discourse, wherein a writer or speaker strives to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.

New!!: Oral tradition and Rhetoric · See more »

Riddle

A riddle is a statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.

New!!: Oral tradition and Riddle · See more »

Rigveda

The Rigveda (Sanskrit: ऋग्वेद, from "praise" and "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns along with associated commentaries on liturgy, ritual and mystical exegesis.

New!!: Oral tradition and Rigveda · See more »

Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

New!!: Oral tradition and Romanticism · See more »

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12 was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

New!!: Oral tradition and Rudyard Kipling · See more »

Rural community development

Rural community development encompasses a range of approaches and activities that aim to improve the welfare and livelihoods of people living in rural areas.

New!!: Oral tradition and Rural community development · See more »

Saga

Sagas are stories mostly about ancient Nordic and Germanic history, early Viking voyages, the battles that took place during the voyages, and migration to Iceland and of feuds between Icelandic families.

New!!: Oral tradition and Saga · See more »

Sanskrit prosody

Sanskrit prosody or Chandas refers to one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies.

New!!: Oral tradition and Sanskrit prosody · See more »

Scientific method

Scientific method is an empirical method of knowledge acquisition, which has characterized the development of natural science since at least the 17th century, involving careful observation, which includes rigorous skepticism about what one observes, given that cognitive assumptions about how the world works influence how one interprets a percept; formulating hypotheses, via induction, based on such observations; experimental testing and measurement of deductions drawn from the hypotheses; and refinement (or elimination) of the hypotheses based on the experimental findings.

New!!: Oral tradition and Scientific method · See more »

Secondary orality

Secondary orality is a concept in the work of scholar Walter J. Ong, as first described in his book Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, published in 1982 (2nd ed. 2002), Walter J. Ong and discussing the differences between oral and literate cultures.

New!!: Oral tradition and Secondary orality · See more »

Semiotics

Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign process (semiosis) and meaningful communication.

New!!: Oral tradition and Semiotics · See more »

Signal-to-noise ratio

Signal-to-noise ratio (abbreviated SNR or S/N) is a measure used in science and engineering that compares the level of a desired signal to the level of background noise.

New!!: Oral tradition and Signal-to-noise ratio · See more »

Slavs

Slavs are an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group who speak the various Slavic languages of the larger Balto-Slavic linguistic group.

New!!: Oral tradition and Slavs · See more »

Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.

New!!: Oral tradition and Society of Jesus · See more »

Sushruta Samhita

The Sushruta Samhita (सुश्रुतसंहिता, IAST: Suśrutasaṃhitā, literally "Suśruta's Compendium") is an ancient Sanskrit text on medicine and surgery, and one of the most important such treatises on this subject to survive from the ancient world.

New!!: Oral tradition and Sushruta Samhita · See more »

Syntax

In linguistics, syntax is the set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a given language, usually including word order.

New!!: Oral tradition and Syntax · See more »

Testimony

In law and in religion, testimony is a solemn attestation as to the truth of a matter.

New!!: Oral tradition and Testimony · See more »

Textuality

In literary theory, textuality comprises all of the attributes that distinguish the communicative content under analysis as an object of study.

New!!: Oral tradition and Textuality · See more »

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling.

New!!: Oral tradition and The Jungle Book · See more »

The Singer of Tales

The Singer of Tales is a book by Albert Lord that discusses the oral tradition as a theory of literary composition and its applications to Homeric and medieval epic.

New!!: Oral tradition and The Singer of Tales · See more »

Tradition

A tradition is a belief or behavior passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past.

New!!: Oral tradition and Tradition · See more »

Traditional knowledge

The terms traditional knowledge, indigenous knowledge and local knowledge generally refer to knowledge systems embedded in the cultural traditions of regional, indigenous, or local communities.

New!!: Oral tradition and Traditional knowledge · See more »

Turkology

Turkology (Turcology, Turkologie) is a complex of humanities sciences studying languages, history, literature, folklore, culture, and ethnology of people speaking Turkic languages and Turkic peoples in chronological and comparative context.

New!!: Oral tradition and Turkology · See more »

Type scene

A type scene is a literary convention employed by a narrator across a set of scenes, or related to scenes (place, action) already familiar to the audience.

New!!: Oral tradition and Type scene · See more »

Understanding Media

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man is a 1964 book by Marshall McLuhan, in which the author proposes that the media, not the content that they carry, should be the focus of study.

New!!: Oral tradition and Understanding Media · See more »

University of Missouri

The University of Missouri (also, Mizzou, or MU) is a public, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri.

New!!: Oral tradition and University of Missouri · See more »

Vasily Radlov

Vasily Vasilievich Radlov or Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff (Васи́лий Васи́льевич Ра́длов;, Berlin – 12 May 1918, Petrograd) was a German-born Russian founder of Turkology, a scientific study of Turkic peoples.

New!!: Oral tradition and Vasily Radlov · See more »

Vedas

The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas (Sanskrit: वेद, "knowledge") are a large body of knowledge texts originating in the ancient Indian subcontinent.

New!!: Oral tradition and Vedas · See more »

Vedic chant

The oral tradition of the Vedas (Śrauta) consists of several pathas, "recitations" or ways of chanting the Vedic mantras.

New!!: Oral tradition and Vedic chant · See more »

Vuk Karadžić

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (Вук Стефановић Караџић; 7 November 1787 – 7 February 1864) was a Serbian philologist and linguist who was the major reformer of the Serbian language.

New!!: Oral tradition and Vuk Karadžić · See more »

Walter J. Ong

Walter Jackson Ong (November 30, 1912–August 12, 2003) was an American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian and philosopher.

New!!: Oral tradition and Walter J. Ong · See more »

World Oral Literature Project

The World Oral Literature Project is "an urgent global initiative to document and disseminate endangered oral literatures before they disappear without record".

New!!: Oral tradition and World Oral Literature Project · See more »

Writing system

A writing system is any conventional method of visually representing verbal communication.

New!!: Oral tradition and Writing system · See more »

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija/Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија; Pannonian Rusyn: Югославия, transcr. Juhoslavija)Jugosllavia; Jugoszlávia; Juhoslávia; Iugoslavia; Jugoslávie; Iugoslavia; Yugoslavya; Югославия, transcr. Jugoslavija.

New!!: Oral tradition and Yugoslavia · See more »

Redirects here:

Folkloric transmission, Oral Culture, Oral Tradition, Oral account, Oral culture, Oral lineage, Oral lore, Oral traditions, Oral transmission, Preliterate, Preliterate culture.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_tradition

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »