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