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Volume 18 | Edited book | Everyday Communication in Antiquity: Frames and Framings

Everyday Communication in Antiquity: Frames and Framings

open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Klaas Bentein - Universiteit Gent, België - email

Abstract

This volume explores everyday communication practices in Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt, with a particular focus on Greek papyri and related sources. It examines how language, layout, and materiality – manifesting overtly or subtly, at global and local levels – shaped the production and interpretation of texts. Grounded in a ‘frame-based’ approach, the chapters draw on sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and multimodality to reveal how ancient writers and readers constructed meaning and articulated identities across genres, languages, and cultural contexts.

Keywords Women • Infinitive • Complementation • Multilingualism • Politeness • Discourse analysis • Height • Postscript • Post-classical Greek • Language of papyri • Social meaning • Greek • Communication • Intersubjectivity • Semiotic grammar • Papyri • Greek letters • Arabic • Register • Speech acts • Relativisation • Norms and usage • Framing • Language • Late antiquity • Layout • Wishes • Atticism • Materiality • Performatives • High-register Greek • Documentary papyri • Administrative papyri • Continuative clauses • Apollonios strategos archive • Documentary roll • Petitions • Stance • Discoursal ‘add-on’ • Ancient Greek • Writing technology • Cross-cultural pragmatics • Epistolography • Indexical order • Bilingualism • Register shibboleths • Afterthought • Text segmentation • Multimodality • Everyday communication • Historical sociolinguistics • Papyrology

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-886-6 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-886-6 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-887-3 | Published April 24, 2025 | Language en

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