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Toward a historical sociolinguistic poetics of Medieval Greek / edited by Andrea Massimo Cuomo, Erich Trapp.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Byzantios ; 12.
- Byzantios ; 12
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Greek language, Medieval and late--Social aspects--Congresses.
- Greek language, Medieval and late.
- Byzantine literature--History and criticism--Congresses.
- Byzantine literature.
- Historical linguistics--Congresses.
- Historical linguistics.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 233 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2017]
- Language Note:
- Contributions in English; Vorwort in German.
- Summary:
- This volume collects some of the papers presented at two international conferences, held in Vienna, on historical sociolinguistics and late Byzantine historiography. How can historical sociolinguistic analyses of Medieval Greek aid the interpretation of Medieval Greek texts? This is the main question that the papers collected in this volume aim to address. The term "historical sociolinguistics" (HSL), a discipline that combines linguistic, social, historical, and philological sciences, suggests that a language cannot be studied without its social dimension. Similarly, the study of a language in its social dimension is nothing else than the study of the communication which takes place between members of a given speech community by the means of written texts. These are seen as sets of shared "signs" used by authors to communicate to their audiences. This volume is divided into two distinct parts. In the first, Cuomo's and Bentein's papers aim to offer an overview on the discipline and examples of applied HSL. Valente's, Bianconi's, and Pérez-Martín's papers will then show how to study the "context of production and reception" of Byzantine texts. These are followed by Horrocks' study on some features of Atticized Medieval Greek. In the second part, the contributions by Telelis, Odorico, and Manolova focus on the context of reception of the texts by Georgios Pachymeres, Theodoros Pediasimos, and Nikephoros Gregoras respectively.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-219) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 2-503-57714-8
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