Everyday Communication in Antiquity.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bentein, Klaas.

Series:

Lexis Supplements Series

Lexis Supplements Series ; v.18

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Written communication.

Social interaction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Venice, Italy : Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Digital Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

This scholarly volume explores everyday written communication practices in Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt, with a focus on Greek papyri and related Coptic and Arabic sources. It is divided into four thematic sections addressing material and visual framing, discursive framing, linguistic and cultural framings, and intratextual framings. Topics include the materiality of documents, politeness and stance in Greek letters, bilingual and biscriptal practices, and the depiction of wrongdoers in petitions. The work employs a frame-based approach to analyze how communicative choices shaped and reflected social and cultural contexts. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

3Exploring Frame-Based Approaches to Everyday Communication in Antiquity

Klaas Bentein

Section 1

Material and Visual Framings

35Medium, Procedures and Conventions

A Framework for Analysing the Materiality of Documents on Papyrus

Serena Causo

Section 2

Discursive Framings

69Connecting Intersubjectivity, Politeness and Stance with Wishes in the Post-Classical Greek Papyri

Ezra la Roi

95Spacing Out Speech Acts

Textual Units and Their Visual Organisation in Greek Letters on Papyrus

Marta Capano

145Frames, Framings and Beyond

Afterthoughts and Other Discoursal 'Add-Ons' in Greek Private Letter Writing

Marianna Thoma

Section 3

Sociocultural Framings

187The Influence of Atticism on Non-Literary Papyri: The Case of θᾶττον

Chiara Monaco

217Seeing the (Smaller and) Bigger Frame: Framing Late Antique Egyptian Writers and Documents Through Bilingual and Biscriptal Choices

Antonia Apostolakou

245Requests in the Qurra Dossier

A Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Approach

Fokelien Kootstra-Ford

Section 4

Intratextual Framings

293Framing the Bad Guys: Continuative Clauses in the Depiction of the Wrongdoer in Papyrus Petitions

Eleonora Cattafi

325Competing Grammars and Language Change: Evidence from Correction and Revision Processes in the Private Papyri from Ptolemaic Egypt

Carla Bruno

1 Introduction

2 The Frames

3 The Corpus

4 Material Frame

4.1 Analysis

5 Processual Frame

5.1 Writing the Document: Pre-Cut Sheet or Continuous Piece of Roll?

5.2 Laying Out the Writing Area

5.3 Cutting Out the Document

6 Relational Frame

6.1 The Materiality of Archival Practices:Tomoi Synkollesimoi

7 Conclusions

2 Annotating the Generic Structure of Greek Letters.

2.1 Textual Segmentation

2.1.1 Units and Subunits

2.1.2 The Role of Coherence and Cohesion within (Sub)Units

2.1.3 Elements and Modifiers

2.2 Speech Acts and Textual Segmentation

2.2.1 The Speech Act Request

2.2.2 The Speech Acts Health Wish and Leave-take

2.3 Bringing Textual and Pragmatic Analysis Together. Declarations and the Speech Acts Statement and Assertion

3 Connecting Generic to Layout Structure

3.1 Visual Cueing

3.2 Connecting Generic Structure to Layout Structure

4 Conclusion

2 Register and Stylisation

2.1 Register: Definition and Problems

2.2 Atticist Lexica and Register Markers

3 The Influence of Atticism on Non-literary Language: Methodology

3.1 The Case of θᾶττον

3.1.1 On the Alternation θᾶττον/τάχιον

3.1.2 Distribution in Literature

3.1.3 Θᾶττον in the Papyri

1.1 The Corpus

1.2 Rhetorical Structure of the Greek and Arabic Letters

1.2.1 Rhetorical Structure of the Greek Letters

1.2.2 Rhetorical Structure of the Arabic Letters

1.3 Speech Acts and Historical Sociopragmatics

2 The Greek Letters

2.1 Requests

2.2 Threats and Admonitions

3 The Arabic Letters

3.1 Requests

3.2 Threats and Admonitions

4 Comparative Discussion and Conclusions

1 Aspects of Variation Within Private Papyri from Egypt. Between Social Dimension and Individual Repertoires

2 Formulation and Re-formulation Between Linguistic Variability and Evolutionary Drift

2.1 The Accusative and Infinitive (AccInf) Across Registers

2.2 Infinitives and Participles in Conflict

3 Concluding Remarks

Pagina vuota.

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ISBN:

9788869698866

OCLC:

1611804018