Ethnolinguistics, Cultural Change and Early Scripts from England and Wales

Jacek Mianowski

ISBN 10: 3631672233 / ISBN 13: 9783631672235

Verlag: Peter Lang Dez 2016, 2016

Beschreibung

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The study presents a chronotope of linguistic and cultural changes that took place in England and Wales between the 4th and 8th centuries. It encompasses the areas of South Wales and Eastern England and describes the cultural practices of preliterate Anglo-Saxon and Celtic speech communities and their adaptation of runic, ogham and Latin scripts. The study is based on the concepts of anthropological linguistics, ethnography of communication and discourse analysis. It incorporates 23 selected ogham- and Latin-inscribed stones from Wales, and 10 rune-inscribed everyday objects from England. The presented inscriptions were designed as text occurrences with well-planned, graphical content distribution, intentionally placed in the public space to increase the range of their potential audience. 218 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783631672235

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Ethnolinguistics, Cultural Change and Early Scripts from England and Wales
• Verlag: Peter Lang Dez 2016
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3631672233
• ISBN-13: 9783631672235
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

The study presents a chronotope of linguistic changes that took place within Welsh and English speech communities (4th-8th c.). It encompasses the adaptation of runic, ogham and Latin scripts, whereas inscriptions are treated as designed text occurrences with well-planned content distribution and intentional placing in the public space.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jacek Mianowski is Assistant Professor at the Kazimierz Wielki University (Bydgoszcz), Poland. His areas of academic research include anthropological linguistics, ethnography of communication, Viking Age studies, the emergence and evolution of writing systems.