oral interpretation

American  

noun

1. the study and practice of vocally expressing the meaning of written compositions, especially of literature.

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Example Sentences

Mr. Hatch said he was going “nowhere” in college and enrolled in an oral interpretation class when a required English course was booked.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2017

Thereby he acquired a precise enunciation, a mellifluous voice and an effective oral interpretation of words.

From Time Magazine Archive

But even before that, there was growing up along with the Scriptures a body of oral interpretation eventually codified in the Talmud.

From Time Magazine Archive

To them and to us the real Torah is the unwritten moral law which underlies the precepts of both the written law and its oral interpretation.

From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann

The works of Alfred Noyes gain distinctly by his oral interpretation of them.

From The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by Phelps, William Lyon