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Volume 18 | Miscellanea | Everyday Communication in Antiquity: Frames and Framings
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 Norms and usage • Politeness • Everyday communication • Documentary roll • Indexical order • Late antiquity • Writing technology • Communication • Relativisation • Continuative clauses • Complementation • Papyri • Layout • Wishes • Speech acts • Apollonios strategos archive • Stance • Semiotic grammar • Text segmentation • Multimodality • Language • Documentary papyri • Petitions • Papyrology • Epistolography • Bilingualism • Intersubjectivity • Language of papyri • Post-classical Greek • Afterthought • Ancient Greek • Women • Administrative papyri • Height • Materiality • Atticism • Arabic • Multilingualism • Historical sociolinguistics • Discoursal ‘add-on’ • Greek letters • Greek • Infinitive • Performatives • Discourse analysis • Postscript • Register • Cross-cultural pragmatics • Framing • Social meaning • High-register Greek • Register shibboleths
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
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Section 1. Material and Visual Framings
Section 2. Discursive Framings
Section 3. Socio-Cultural Framings
Section 4. Intratextual Framings