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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Altri autori: Minets, Yuliya ca. 20./21. Jh. (Redattore) ; Nowakowski, Paweł F. 1980- (Redattore)
Tipo di documento: Digitale/Stampa Libro
Lingua:Inglese
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Pubblicazione: Leiden Boston Brill [2024]
In: Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity (volume 33)
Anno: 2024
Periodico/Rivista:Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity volume 33
(sequenze di) soggetti normati:B Naher Osten / Egitto (Antichità <epoca>) / Sociolinguistica / Epigrafia / Multilinguismo / Storia 284-610
Notazioni IxTheo:AG Vita religiosa
KBL Medio Oriente
TD Epoca tardoantica
Altre parole chiave:B Linguistic change (Middle East) History
B Raccolta di saggi
B Sociolinguistics (Middle East) History
B Written communication (Middle East) History
B Multilingualism (Middle East) History
B Essays
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Riepilogo:"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?"--
Descrizione del documento:Includes index
ISBN:9004682309
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/9789004682337