Everyday Communication in Antiquity: Frames and Framings
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Klaas Bentein - Ghent University - 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 Papyri • Apollonios strategos archive • Bilingualism • High-register Greek • Politeness • Materiality • Discoursal ‘add-on’ • Petitions • Papyrology • Epistolography • Late antiquity • Afterthought • Intersubjectivity • Communication • Arabic • Documentary roll • Norms and usage • Infinitive • Post-classical Greek • Wishes • Administrative papyri • Discourse analysis • Greek • Postscript • Height • Framing • Multimodality • Semiotic grammar • Stance • Language of papyri • Continuative clauses • Women • Greek letters • Text segmentation • Language • Layout • Writing technology • Register shibboleths • Social meaning • Atticism • Speech acts • Performatives • Multilingualism • Historical sociolinguistics • Ancient Greek • Complementation • Relativisation • Indexical order • Everyday communication • Register • Cross-cultural pragmatics • Documentary papyri
Thema codes CFN • NHC • 1QBAG • 3CTB
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