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