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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 Historical sociolinguisticsStanceDiscourse analysisEveryday communicationMaterialityPetitionsSocial meaningGreekWriting technologyHigh-register GreekSemiotic grammarAtticismBilingualismHeightAfterthoughtPolitenessIndexical orderIntersubjectivityArabicPerformativesContinuative clausesRegister shibbolethsSpeech actsDiscoursal ‘add-on’LayoutFramingCross-cultural pragmaticsMultimodalityEpistolographyLanguage of papyriPapyrologyComplementationAncient GreekCommunicationText segmentationDocumentary papyriDocumentary rollInfinitivePapyriGreek lettersPostscriptWishesWomenAdministrative papyriLanguageNorms and usageMultilingualismRelativisationPost-classical GreekLate antiquityApollonios strategos archiveRegister

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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