ADJECTIVE
- not yet having acquired the ability to read and write
- used of a society that has not developed writing
How To Use preliterate In A Sentence
- The answer is a resounding no - preliterate people classify animals and plants into crude categories like ‘big’ and ‘small.’
- In the preliterate days and among the peasants much later, folk songs, legends, poetry, jokes, and riddles were important artistic expressions.
- The remarkable funeral seems to emerge from a collective preliterate tradition whose origins are African and whose inspiration to freedom arises from the natural world.
- In preliterate and in preindustrial urban societies, socially successful individuals commonly had larger than average families. Who Wants More Kids?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- Of course, Durkheim did not directly transpose this rather slighting view of economic pursuits from the context of preliterate, tribal existence to that of more advanced societies.
- Genetic, linguistic, artefactual and behavioural tools historicize preliterate humanity. The Times Literary Supplement
- It is instructive to look at preliterate societies, where literacy and standardization have been more recently introduced, to see how different languages begin to acquire prestige and others are devalued.
- In the age of television and the Internet, we are not returning to the preliterate, but descending into the postliterate.
- In a systematic study of more than a dozen cultures, including a preliterate culture in New Guinea, he found a nearly universal language of facial expression for the emotions of anger, sadness, disgust, enjoyment, and surprise.
- Their individual and collective endeavors were thwarted by the machinations of powerful men, institutions, and a tradition-bound, preliterate society.
