Everyday Communication in Antiquity: Frames and Framings
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- 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 Continuative clauses • Atticism • Stance • Bilingualism • Post-classical Greek • Postscript • Social meaning • High-register Greek • Writing technology • Documentary roll • Communication • Administrative papyri • Semiotic grammar • Documentary papyri • Height • Language of papyri • Arabic • Materiality • Women • Multimodality • Speech acts • Afterthought • Framing • Ancient Greek • Politeness • Layout • Wishes • Papyri • Text segmentation • Greek letters • Late antiquity • Apollonios strategos archive • Infinitive • Papyrology • Everyday communication • Discourse analysis • Language • Multilingualism • Indexical order • Performatives • Greek • Cross-cultural pragmatics • Epistolography • Complementation • Register shibboleths • Register • Historical sociolinguistics • Norms and usage • Intersubjectivity • Petitions • Relativisation • Discoursal ‘add-on’
Thema codes CFN • NHC • 1QBAG • 3CTB
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
Sottoserie Studi di Letteratura Greca e Latina e-ISSN 2724-0142 ISSN 2724-377X
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