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

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

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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