The Fragmentation of the Integrated Process of Communicative Action

What is it about?

This is a study of changing patterns of speaking in early medieval Europe. It argues, based on an evaluation of types of recorded sound changes that the speed of speaking increased during the period between the ninth and the eleventh century and that this change was due to speakers' readiness to separate verbal from non-verbal speech acts in consequence of the dissemination of the use of writing.

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Why is it important?

There is a demand for critically reviewing the history of speaking in early medieval Europe.