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Volume 18 | Miscellanea | Everyday Communication in Antiquity: Frames and Framings

Everyday Communication in Antiquity: Frames and Framings

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

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 | Pubblicato 24 Aprile 2025 | Lingua en

Copyright © 2025 Klaas Bentein. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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