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The spoken word : oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850 / / edited by Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf



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Autore: Woolf Daniel Visualizza persona
Titolo: The spoken word : oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850 / / edited by Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester University Press, 2003
Manchester, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018, 2002
New York, New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [date of distribution not identified]
©2002
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)
Disciplina: 398.0941
Soggetto topico: Oral tradition - Great Britain
Literature and folklore - Great Britain
Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Languages
Great Britain Social life and customs
Soggetto non controllato: culture
oral
folklore
linguistics
Gaels
Genealogy
Literacy
Oral tradition
Scottish Gaelic
Spoken word
Welsh language
Persona (resp. second.): FoxAdam <1964->
WoolfD. R (Daniel R.)
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sommario/riassunto: Human beings have developed a superabundance of ways of communicating with each other. Some, such as writing, are several millennia old. This book focuses on the relationship between speech and writing both within a single language, Welsh, and between two languages, Welsh and English. It demonstrates that the eighteenth-century Scottish clergy used the popular medium of Gaelic in oral and written form to advance the Gospel. The experience of literacy in early modern Wales was often an expression of legal and religious authority reinforced by the spoken word. This included the hearing of proclamations and other black-letter texts publicly read. Literate Protestant clergymen governed and shaped the Gaelic culture by acting as the bridge-builders between oral and literary traditions, and as arbiters of literary taste and the providers of reading material for newly literate people.
Titolo autorizzato: The spoken word  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5261-3787-9
1-280-73393-4
9786610733934
1-84779-059-3
1-4237-0631-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910146930303321
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Serie: Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.