TY - BOOK ID - 9440579 TI - The spoken word : oral culture in Britain 1500-1850 AU - Fox, Adam AU - Woolf, Daniel R. PY - 2002 SN - 0719057477 0719057469 9786610733934 1847790593 1280733934 1423706315 9781526137876 9781423706311 9781847790590 9781280733932 6610733937 1526137879 9780719057465 9780719057472 PB - Manchester : Manchester university press, DB - UniCat KW - 820 <09> KW - 942 KW - Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van ... KW - Geschiedenis van Engeland en Groot-Brittannië KW - Literature and folklore KW - Literature and history KW - Oral tradition KW - 942 Geschiedenis van Engeland en Groot-Brittannië KW - 820 <09> Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van ... KW - Great Britain KW - Languages. KW - Social life and customs. KW - Folklore and literature KW - Literature and folk-lore KW - Tradition, Oral KW - Oral communication KW - Folklore KW - Oral history KW - Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van .. KW - 942 History of England and Great-Britain KW - History of England and Great-Britain KW - Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van KW - culture KW - oral KW - folklore KW - linguistics KW - Gaels KW - Genealogy KW - Literacy KW - Scottish Gaelic KW - Spoken word KW - Welsh language UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9440579 AB - 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. ER -