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Novel perspectives on communication practices in antiquity : towards a historical social-semiotic approach
- 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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- 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
- 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