Novel perspectives on communication practices in antiquity : towards a historical social-semiotic approach / edited by Klaas Bentein, Yasmine Amory.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Bentein, Klaas, editor.

Amory, Yasmine, editor.

Conference Name:

Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity: Towards a Historical Socio-Semiotic Approach (Conference) (2019 : Ghent, Belgium), author.

Series:

Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; v. 41.

Papyrologica lugduno-batava, 0169-9652 ; volumen XLI

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, Classical (Papyri)--Congresses.

Manuscripts, Classical (Papyri).

Communication--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Communication.

Semiotics--Social aspects--Congresses.

Semiotics.

Semiotics--Social aspects.

Genre:

proceedings (reports)

Conference papers and proceedings

History

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 198 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"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 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. Contributors are: Yasmine Amory, Klaas Bentein, Sarah Béthume, Eleonora Conti, Mark Depauw, Jean-Luc Fournet, Antonella Ghignoli, Geert de Mol, Nicola Reggiani, Marco Stroppa, Sofía Torallas Tovar, Jimmy Wolfe"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Developing a Historical Social-Semiotic Approach to Communication Practices in Antiquity / Klaas Bentein and Yasmine Amory. Part 1. A Novel Approach to the Visual and Material Characteristics of Ancient Documents. Beyond the Text or the Contribution of "Paléographie signifiante" in Documentary Papyrology: The Example of Formats in Late Antiquity / Jean-Luc Fournet

BIG & Small: The Size of Documents as a Semiotic Resource for Greco-Roman Egypy / Marco Stroppa

Notes on Ostraca and Scribal Practice / Sofia Torallas Tovar

Visual Signs of Deference in Late Antique Greek Letters on Papyrus / Yasmine Amory

The Spread and Persistence of Roman Features in SOme Greek Papyrus Letters of the High Chancery / Eleonora Angela Conti

Applied Category Analysis for Interpreting a List in the Late Antique Documentary Tradition: Some Preliminary Considerations / Antonella Ghignoli. Part 2. A Multi-Modal Approach to Ancient Sources. The Textualization of Women's Letters from Roman Egypt: Analyzing Historical Framing Practices from a Multi-Modal point of View / Klaas Benstein

Towards a Socio-Semiotic Analysis of Greek Medical Prescriptions / Nicola Reggiani

Imagining Faith: Images, Scripts, and Texts of Early Christian Inscriptions from the Roman Near East / James Wolfe

The "Exposed Writings": Semiotic Contributions to the Analysis of Linguistic Variability in Archaic Greek Inscriptions / Sarah Béthume. Part 3. A Quantitative Approach to Linguistic Variation in Papyri. Ὀκτώ or ὀκτώι: Reconsidering Orthographic Hypercorrection in Antiquity / Geert De Mol

Word-Split Frequency in Greek Documentary Papyri (with an Appendix on Syllabification) / Mark Depauw.

Notes:

"This volume contains selected and thoroughly revised versions of papers presented at the international conference "Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity: Towards a Historical Socio-Semiotic Approach." Held at the cultural center Het Pand in Ghent from October 3 to 5, 2019"

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Novel perspectives on communication practices in antiquity

ISBN:

9789004526518

900452651X

OCLC:

1346989312

Publisher Number:

99993428629