scriptorial
- adjective
- /skrɪpˈtɔːriəl/
- Jargon
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escriptural
- The scriptorial structure of the film was carefully crafted to maintain the audience's attention from start to finish.
- scriptorial landscape
Examples
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Her scriptorial skills helped bring the playwright's vision to life on stage.
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The director worked closely with the scriptorial team to ensure the dialogues were engaging for the audience.
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On matters of culture, territory, and the scriptorial landscape, the past has made assumptions different from those of the present.
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History, settlement pattern, and sociability play a part in what the scriptorial landscape consists of and how it is implemented.
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Since the implementation of the 1977 charter in Quebec, the scriptorial landscape has become monolingual in theory but somewhat less so in practice.
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A comparison of the scriptorial landscapes of two small cities, one in Europe and the other in North America, attests to how the visuality of linguistic expression can become a vehicle for identity politics and policies.
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Written signs have a long history, but not until the advance of literacy and technology in the twentieth century did the scriptorial landscape emerge as a pervasive phenomenon.
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Language differences and histories aside, the scriptorial landscapes of these two transatlantic polarities converge in their goals and aspirations.
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Placed in a temporal perspective, the scriptorial landscape of a given place offers a way to understand permutations in language use, the ethnic identification to which that is related, and historic claims to uniqueness.
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The scriptorial landscape may be viewed as part of the communication technology that Benedict Anderson (1991) considered critical in the emergence of the nation-state in Western countries.
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Synonyms
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About how people make and show a play or stage show
Written in advance rather than made up while speaking or acting
About how a play is written and put on
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scriptorial comes from the Latin root scrib-/script- meaning 'to write', the same root as the common word script. So scriptorial in theatre, film, or radio means 'about the writing or structure of scripts'.