Ethnolinguistics, Cultural Change and Early Scripts from England and Wales

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author(s)/editor(s)
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Subject matter
• 2. Research perspective
• 3. Research material
• Chapter One: Some Remarks on Oral Cultures
• 1. On the notion of orality
• 1.1. Selected features of oral transmission of information
• 1.1.1. Additiveness
• 1.1.2. Aggregation vs. analysing information
• 1.1.3. Redundancy and repetition
• 1.1.4. Preservation of knowledge
• 1.1.5. Conceptualising vs. verbalising knowledge
• 1.1.6. Struggle-based rhetorics
• 1.1.7. Empathetic and participatory reception
• 1.1.8. Time perception
• 2. Cultural practices
• 3. On the power of language
• 4. On the significance of myths
• 5. Oral cultures and the notion of text
• 6. Chapter conclusions
• Chapter Two: On the Emergence of Writing
• 1. Selected remarks on the notions of culture and cultural groups
• 2. The origins of writing — an outline proposal
• 2.1. Restructuring the oral mind
• 2.2. Writing as a conscious necessity
• 2.3. Counting — a forerunner of writing
• 3. Interferences of writing and art in ancient Mesopotamia
• 3.1. Preliterate and literate pottery patterns
• 3.2. Innovations in seal carving
• 4. Emergence of cuneiform writing
• 4.1. Mechanisms of evolution
• 4.2. Geographic distribution
• 4.3. Practical application of cuneiform script
• 5. On the novelties of Linear A and B
• 5.1. Early archaeological finds
• 5.2. The application and functioning of Linear A and B
• 6. Towards a better language representation — alphabetic writing
• 7. Chapter conclusions
• Chapter Three: Antique-Medieval Transition as a Cultural Process
• 1. Chronological boundaries
• 2. Medieval worldview
• 2.1. Political concepts of the Middle Ages
• 2.2. The role of monarchies and courts
• 2.3. On the structure of early medieval societies
• 2.4. The role of Latin
• 2.5. The impact of Christianity
• 2.6. The significance of trade
• 3. Chapter conclusions
• Chapter Four: Transformation of the Barbaric Mentality
• 1. Germanic tradition of the British Isles
• 2. Celtic tradition in Wales
• 3. Latinisation of barbaric minds
• 4. Visual arts in post-Roman Britain
• 5. Poetic tradition in early medieval Britain
• 6. Orality and literacy in the British Isles
• 7. Chapter conclusions
• Chapter Five: Research methodology
• 1. Ethnolingustic framework — contemporary studies of historical evidence
• 2. On the research approaches to orality and literacy in early medieval Britain
• 2.1. Discourse as a social practice
• 2.2. Linguistic landscaping
• 2.3. Seven standards of textuality
• 2.4. Proposed research-exclusive methodology
• 3. Presentation of the research material
• 3.1. On the origin of runic graphemes and Anglo-Saxon runic tradition
• 3.2. On the use of Latin and ogham scripts in (post-) Roman Wales
• Chapter Six: Analysis of the material
• 1. The text corpus
• 2. Latin- and ogham-inscribed stones of Wales
• 3. Rune-inscribed items from England
• 4. Chapter conclusions
• Final conclusions
• References
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects