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Meaning of "oralism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ORALISM

oralism  [ˈɔːrəlˌɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ORALISM

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Oralism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ORALISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Oralism

Oralism is the education of deaf students through oral language by using lip reading, speech, and mimicking the mouth shapes and breathing patterns of speech instead of using sign language within the classroom. Oralism came into popular use in the United States around the late 1860s, with the Clarke School for the Deaf in Northampton, Massachusetts being the first school to start teaching in this manner, in 1867.

Definition of oralism in the English dictionary

The definition of oralism in the dictionary is the method of communicating with people who are deaf via lip reading or speech.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ORALISM


ableism
ˈeɪbəlˌɪzəm
chloralism
ˈklɔːrəlˌɪzəm
connubialism
kəˈnjuːbɪəlˌɪzəm
controversialism
ˌkɒntrəˈvɜːʃ əlˌɪzəm
ecumenicalism
ˌiːkjʊˈmenɪkəlˌɪzəm
elementalism
ˌɛlɪˈmɛntəlˌɪzəm
fallibilism
ˈfælɪbəlˌɪzəm
labialism
ˈleɪbɪəlˌɪzəm
mongrelism
ˈmʌŋɡrəlˌɪzəm
multilateralism
ˌmʌltɪˈlætərəlˌɪzəm
municipalism
mjuːˈnɪsɪpəlˌɪzəm
novelism
ˈnɒvəlˌɪzəm
officialism
əˈfɪʃəlˌɪzəm
Pantagruelism
ˌpæntəˈɡruːəlˌɪzəm
pastoralism
ˈpɑːstərəlˌɪzəm
possibilism
ˈpɒsɪbəlˌɪzəm
scripturalism
ˈskrɪptʃərəlˌɪzəm
survivalism
səˈvaɪvəlˌɪzəm
theatricalism
θɪˈætrɪkəlˌɪzəm
ultraliberalism
ˌʌltrəˈlɪbərəlˌɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ORALISM

oral
oral eroticism
oral examiner
oral history
oral hygiene
oral hygienist
Oral Law
oral sex
oral society
oral tradition
oral vowel
oralist
orality
orally
Oran
orang
orang-outang
orang-utan
orange
orange blossom

WORDS THAT END LIKE ORALISM

brutalism
capitalism
citizen journalism
colonialism
formalism
imperialism
individualism
journalism
liberalism
literalism
materialism
metabolism
minimalism
nationalism
Orientalism
photojournalism
professionalism
realism
socialism
surrealism
vandalism

Synonyms and antonyms of oralism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «oralism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ORALISM

Find out the translation of oralism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of oralism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «oralism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

oralism
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

oralism
570 millions of speakers

English

oralism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

oralism
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التفاهم بالفم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

oralism
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

oralidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

oralism
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

oralisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Oralisme
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Oralismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

口話
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

oralism
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Oralisme
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

oralism
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

oralism
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तोंडीपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

oralism
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

oralism
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

oralism
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

oralism
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

oralism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

oralism
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oralism
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oralism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oralism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of oralism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ORALISM»

The term «oralism» is used very little and occupies the 173.677 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ORALISM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «oralism» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «oralism» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about oralism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORALISM»

Discover the use of oralism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to oralism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism, and a New ...
Kathleen E. Welch explores the profound changes in writing and discourse brought about by electronic forms of communication.
Kathleen E. Welch, 1999
2
Many Ways to be Deaf: International Variation in Deaf ...
that the differences in notions of identity between older and younger community members in Ireland stem from school language policies that required using either sign or oralism. When carried out, these language policies to use sign and, later,  ...
Leila Frances Monaghan, 2003
3
Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against ...
Nor did oralism result simply from the actions of a few dedicated and powerful individuals, such as Alexander Graham Bell and Samuel Gridley Howe, as was often claimed by manu- ahsts and is often assumed today. Oralism, rather ...
Douglas C. Baynton, 1996
4
Damned for Their Difference: The Cultural Construction of ...
Apart from the London School Board schools where Stainer was a very recent and reluctant convert to oralism, the oral schools were all small private schools catering, not to the needs of poor people, but to the demands of wealthy, " cultured" ...
Jan Branson, Don Miller, 2002
5
Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to ...
Other wealthy benefactors, such as Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Edison, took an interest in Bell's experiments with oralism and joined the leading oral association, the American Association for the Promotion and Teaching of Speech to the ...
Susan Burch, 2004
6
Rhetoric in Detail: Discourse Analyses of Rhetorical Talk ...
Baynton's (1996, 2006) history of sign language, and in particular the nineteenth- century debate between manualism and oralism, offers a framework for understanding the dramatic shift at the end of the nineteenth century from a philosophy ...
Barbara Johnstone, Christopher Eisenhart, 2008
7
Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood
Oralism and the Renewed Religious Discourse The roles of medicine and science, class and race, wealth and capitalism, in the expansion of Oralism have been described in the previous two sections. However, the crucial role of religion in ...
Paddy Ladd, 2003
8
The Study of Signed Languages: Essays in Honor of William C. ...
The obvious and easy answer to the latter question is that "oralism" put an end to it. When schools for the deaf moved increasingly to strictly oral education, banning the use of sign language in most of their classrooms, the number of teachers ...
David F. Armstrong, Michael A. Karchmer, John V. Van Cleve, 2002
9
Encyclopedia of Disability
Oralism refers to one of the two principal approaches to and philosophies of teaching language to the deaf; it is contrasted with manualism. Oralism assumes that speech is the most evolutionarily advantageous form of language and that the ...
Gary L Albrecht, 2005
10
Seeing Language in Sign: The Work of William C. Stokoe
and his supporters, oralism gained such a foothold in America that by 1927, probably the height of pure oralism in this country, sign had been almost completely banned from classrooms, except in the case of "oral failures." As more and more ...
Jane Maher, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ORALISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term oralism is used in the context of the following news items.
1
'Spring Awakening' finds a voice at Deaf West Theatre
In the years before Wedekind's play was written, a conference of educators had decided to support oralism as the single method of educating ... «Jewish Journal, May 15»
2
The Signs of Music
... of educators proclaimed that lip-reading and mimicked speech, or what was called oralism, was superior to sign language—or “manualism. «Pacific Standard, May 15»
3
Why This Musical Isn't Just for Deaf People — It's for Everyone
Influenced by Darwinian notions of the survival of the fittest, oralism — or the exclusive use of lip reading and speech as opposed to manual ... «Mic, May 15»
4
Chattanooga man teaches lip reading to hard of hearing, but …
Those who promote lip reading -- also known as oralism -- say it's the best way to integrate deaf people into society as a whole, but some in the ... «Chattanooga Times Free Press, Apr 15»
5
New, safer surgery for little Camryn
She said the centre, which advocates “oralism” rather than sign language, has offered the family tremendous support. After advising Camryn's ... «Independent Online, Mar 15»
6
"Children of a Lesser God"
Back then it was a struggle against oralism, which was intended to supplant ASL as the primary method of communication in the deaf ... «Rochester City Newspaper, Jan 15»
7
To implant or not: the dilemma of the deaf
If the deaf could be made to hear, so the majority argument went, then the debate over the relative merits of oralism and Sign would become ... «The Australian Financial Review, Nov 14»
8
Signs of the Times: 'Spring Awakening' at Deaf West
It was a culture that people attempted to eradicate, in a way, through oralism.” There was some discussion about whether the lead character ... «American Theatre, Oct 14»
9
Deaf West Theatre makes Tony winner 'Spring Awakening' all its own
The deaf story line also provides some historical context: In the late 1800s in Europe, deaf educators imposed oralism — speaking or lip ... «Los Angeles Times, Sep 14»
10
A 'Spring Awakening' to See and Hear
The only way for deaf people to be fully integrated into society would be to teach them oralism, which meant reading lips and speaking. «LA Downtown News Online, Sep 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Oralism [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/oralism>. May 2024 ».
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