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Title

Novel perspectives on communication practices in antiquity : towards a historical social-semiotic approach / edited by Klaas Bentein, Yasmine Amory.

Author

Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity: Towards a Historical Socio-Semiotic Approach (Conference) (2019 : Ghent, Belgium) author.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

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Additional Authors

• Bentein, Klaas
• Amory, Yasmine

Description

vi, 198 pages : illustrations; 30 cm.

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

Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; v. 41.

Subject

• To 1500
• Manuscripts, Classical (Papyri) > Congresses
• Communication > History > To 1500 > Congresses
• Semiotics > Social aspects > Congresses
• Communication
• Manuscripts, Classical (Papyri)
• Semiotics > Social aspects

Genre/Form

• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• History
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

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.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Developing a historical social semiotic approach to communication practices in antiquity / Klaas Bentein and Yasmine Amory -- Part 1. A Novel Approach to the Visual and Material Characteristics of Ancient Documents -- 1. Beyond the text or the contribution of "Paléographie signifiante" in documentary papyrology: The example of formats in late antiquity / Jean-Luc Fournet -- 2. BIG & small: The size of documents as a semiotic resource for Graeco-Roman Egypt / Marco Stroppa -- 3. Notes on ostraca and scribal practice / Sofia Torallas Tovar -- 4. Visual signs of deference in Late Antique Greek letters on papyrus / Yasmine Amory -- 5. The spread and persistence of Roman features in some Greek papyrus letters of the high Chancery / Eleonora Angela Conti -- 6. Applied category analysis for interpreting a list in the late antique documentary tradition: Some preliminary considersations / Antonella Chignoli -- Part 2. A Multi-Model Approach to Ancient Sources -- 7. The textualization of women's letters from Roman Egypt: Analyzing historical framing practices from a multi-model point of view / Klaas Bentein -- 8. Towards a socio-semiotic analysis of Greek medical prescriptions on papyrus / Nicola Reggiani -- Imaging faith: Images, scripts, and texts of early Christian inscriptions from the Roman Near East / James Wolfe -- 10. The "Exposed Writings": Semiotic contributions to the analysis of linguistic ariability in archaic Greek inscriptions / Sarah Béthume -- Part 3. A Quantitative Approach to Linguistic Variations in Papyri -- 11. '?????????? or {u03CC}??????????: Reconsidering orthographic hypercorrection in antiquity / Geert De Mol -- 12. Word-split frequency in Greek documentary papyri (with appendix on syllabification) / Mark Depauw.

ISBN

• 9789004526518
• 900452651X
• 9789004526525 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2022043636
• 99993428629

OCLC

• on1346989312
• 1346989312
• SCSB-14542874

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library