Soap opera is so readily incorporated into everyday life because its formal structures represent the liveness, the nowness, the unwrittenness of oral culture.
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Unwrittenness
Synonyms for "unwrittenness" (7 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
absence of recordscasualness
Strong matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
informalitylack of codification
Related words (3)
Noun(2 words)
lack of written recordsunrecordedness
Adjective(1 words)
unwritten norms
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4 entriesdocumented policyoral traditiontacit knowledgewritten rule
Collocations
6 entriesinformal practicelack of documentationoral traditiontacit knowledgeunwrittenness in policyunwrittenness in practice
Inflections
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