- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (vi, 198 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "Documentary texts are vital to our understanding of many aspects of the ancient world, such as its administration, education, and economy. The value of these texts goes even further however: being autographs, they directly testify to ancient communication practices, a field of study which so far has remained underexplored. In this volume, specialists in the field engage with a broad range documentary sources. They discuss not only how various modes of communication, such as language, handwriting, and lay-out, are employed in specific contexts of writing, but also how these different modes are interrelated. Building on insights from contemporary social semiotic theory, the volume makes a case for the establishment of historical social semiotics as a discipline. Contributors are: Yasmine Amory, Klaas Bentein, Sarah Béthume, Eleonora Conti, Mark Depauw, Jean-Luc Fournet, Antonella Ghignoli, Geert de Mol, Nicola Reggiani, Marco Stroppa, Sofía Torallas Tovar, Jimmy Wolfe"--
- Series Statement
- Papyrologica lugduno-batava, 0169-9652 ; volumen XLI
- Uniform Title
- Novel perspectives on communication practices in antiquity (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Towards a historical social-semiotic approach
- Subject
- Note
- "This volume contains selected and thoroughly revised versions of papers presented at the international conference "Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity: Towards a Historical Socio-Semiotic Approach." Held at the cultural center Het Pand in Ghent from October 3 to 5, 2019"
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- A novel approach to the visual and material characteristics of ancient documents -- A multi-modal approach to ancient sources -- A quantitative approach to linguistic variation in papryi.
- LCCN
- 2022043636
- OCLC
- ssj0002739011
- Title
Novel perspectives on communication practices in antiquity [electronic resource] : towards a historical social-semiotic approach / edited by Klaas Bentein, Yasmine Amory.
- Imprint
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
- Series
Papyrologica lugduno-batava, 0169-9652 ; volumen XLI
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Bentein, Klaas.
Amory, Yasmine.
Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity: Towards a Historical Socio-Semiotic Approach (Conference) (2019 : Ghent, Belgium)