Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity

Towards a Historical Social-Semiotic Approach
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52651-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 289 mm, Gewicht: 1000 g

Reihe: Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava

Documentary texts are vital to our understanding of many aspects of the ancient world, such as its administration, education, and economy. The value of these texts goes even further however: being autographs, they directly testify to ancient communication practices, a field of study which so far has remained underexplored. In this volume, specialists in the field engage with a broad range of documentary sources. They discuss not only how various modes of communication, such as language, handwriting, and lay-out, are employed in specific contexts of writing, but also how these different modes are interrelated. Building on insights from contemporary social-semiotic theory, the volume makes a case for the establishment of historical social semiotics as a discipline.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bentein, Klaas

Amory, Yasmine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Über Autor(innen)

Klaas Bentein, Ph.D. (2012), is associate research professor at Ghent University and PI of the ERC project EVWRIT. He has published widely in the fields of Ancient Greek linguistics and papyrology, including Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek: Have- and Be- Constructions (OUP 2016).

Yasmine Amory, Ph.D. (2018), École Pratique des Hautes Études, is postdoctoral research fellow at Ghent University. She has published many articles on communication practices in Antiquity and compiles editions of unpublished papyri from different collections around the world.

Contributors are: Yasmine Amory, Klaas Bentein, Sarah Béthume, Eleonora Conti, Geert De Mol, Mark Depauw, Jean-Luc Fournet, Antonella Ghignoli, Nicola Reggiani, Marco Stroppa, Sofía Torallas Tovar, James Wolfe.