Shaping letters, shaping communities: multilingualism and linguistic practice in the late antique Near East and Egypt
"The volume explores linguistic practices and choices in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean. It investigates how linguistic diversity and change influenced the social dimension of human interaction, affected group dynamics, the expression and negotiation of various communal identities, such...
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| Type de support: | Numérique/imprimé Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2024]
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Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity (volume 33)
Année: 2024 |
| Collection/Revue: | Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity
volume 33 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Naher Osten
/ Égypte (Antiquité)
/ Sociolinguistique
/ Épigraphie
/ Multilinguisme
/ Histoire 284-610
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| Classifications IxTheo: | AG Vie religieuse KBL Proche-Orient et Afrique du Nord TD Antiquité tardive |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Linguistic change (Middle East)
History
B Sociolinguistics (Middle East) History B Written communication (Middle East) History B Multilingualism (Middle East) History B Essays B Recueil d'articles |
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| Résumé: | "The volume explores linguistic practices and choices in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean. It investigates how linguistic diversity and change influenced the social dimension of human interaction, affected group dynamics, the expression and negotiation of various communal identities, such as professional groups of mosaic-makers, stonecutters, or their supervisors in North Syria, bilingual monastic communities in Palestine, elusive producers of Coptic ritual texts in Egypt, or Jewish communities in Dura Europos and Palmyra. The key question is: what do we learn about social groups and human individuals by studying their multilingualism and language practices reflected in epigraphic and other written sources?"-- |
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| Description: | Includes index |
| ISBN: | 9004682309 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004682337 |