Shaping Letters Shaping Communities Multilingualism And Linguistic Practice In The Late Antique Near East And Egypt

Download Shaping Letters Shaping Communities Multilingualism And Linguistic Practice In The Late Antique Near East And Egypt full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Shaping Letters Shaping Communities Multilingualism And Linguistic Practice In The Late Antique Near East And Egypt ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Shaping Letters, Shaping Communities: Multilingualism and Linguistic Practice in the Late Antique Near East and Egypt

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004682333
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Shaping Letters, Shaping Communities: Multilingualism and Linguistic Practice in the Late Antique Near East and Egypt by :

Download or read book Shaping Letters, Shaping Communities: Multilingualism and Linguistic Practice in the Late Antique Near East and Egypt written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids

Author : Arietta Papaconstantinou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351885375
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids by : Arietta Papaconstantinou

Download or read book The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids written by Arietta Papaconstantinou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a millennium and a half, Egypt was home to at least two commonly used languages of communication. Although this situation is by no means exceptional in the ancient and medieval worlds, the wealth of documentary sources preserved by Egypt's papyri makes the country a privileged observation ground for the study of ancient multilingualism. One of the greatest contributions of papyri to this subject is that they capture more linguistic registers than other ancient and medieval sources, since they range from very private documents not meant by their author to be read by future generations, to official documents produced by the administration, which are preserved in their original form. This collection of essays aims to make this wealth better known, as well as to give a diachronic view of multilingual practices in Egypt from the arrival of the Greeks as a political force in the country with Alexander the Great, to the beginnings of Abbasid rule when Greek, and slowly also Coptic, receded from the documentary record. The first section of the book gives an overview of the documentary sources for this subject, which for ancient history standards are very rich and as yet under-exploited. The second part contains several case studies from different periods that deal with language use in contexts of varying breadth and scope, from its the ritual use in magic or the liturgy to private letters and state administration.

Multilingualism in Ancient Contexts

Author : Louis C. Jonker
Publisher : African Sun Media
ISBN 13 : 1991201168
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (912 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Multilingualism in Ancient Contexts by : Louis C. Jonker

Download or read book Multilingualism in Ancient Contexts written by Louis C. Jonker and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multilingualism remains a thorny issue in many contexts, be it cultural, political, or educational. Debates and discourses on this issue in contexts of diversity (particularly in multicultural societies, but also in immigration situations) are often conducted with present-day communicational and educational needs in mind, or with political and identity agendas. This is nothing new. There are a vast number of witnesses from the ancient West-Asian and Mediterranean world attesting to the same debates in long past societies. Could an investigation into the linguistic landscapes of ancient societies shed any light on our present-day debates and discourses? This volume suggests that this is indeed the case. In fourteen chapters, written and visual sources of the ancient world are investigated and explored by scholars, specialising in those fields of study, to engage in an interdisciplinary discourse with modern-day debates about multilingualism. A final chapter – by an expert in language in education – responds critically to the contributions in the book to open avenues for further interdisciplinary engagement – together with contemporary linguists and educationists – on the matter of multilingualism.

Bilingualism in Ancient Society

Author : James Noel Adams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199245062
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (45 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Bilingualism in Ancient Society by : James Noel Adams

Download or read book Bilingualism in Ancient Society written by James Noel Adams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilingualism has seen an explosion of work in recent years. This volume introduces classicists, ancient historians and other scholars interested in sociolinguistic research into evidence of bilingualism in the ancient Mediterranean.

Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East

Author : Trevor Bryce
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134575866
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East by : Trevor Bryce

Download or read book Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East written by Trevor Bryce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 17th to the 12th centuries BCE, the five Great Kings of Egypt, Babylon, Hatti (the kingdom of the Hittites), Mitanni and Assyria ruled over vast, complex territories. One of the secrets to their control was frequent communication by letter.

The Language of Roman Letters

Author : Olivia Elder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781108727105
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (271 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Language of Roman Letters by : Olivia Elder

Download or read book The Language of Roman Letters written by Olivia Elder and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Letters and Communities

Author : Paola Ceccarelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192526235
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Letters and Communities by : Paola Ceccarelli

Download or read book Letters and Communities written by Paola Ceccarelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing of letters often evokes associations of a single author and a single addressee, who share in the exchange of intimate thoughts across distances of space and time. This model underwrites such iconic notions as the letter representing an 'image of the soul of the author' or constituting 'one half of a dialogue'. However justified this conception of letter-writing may be in particular instances, it tends to marginalize a range of issues that were central to epistolary communication in the ancient world and have yet to receive sustained and systematic investigation. In particular, it overlooks the fact that letters frequently presuppose and were designed to reinforce communities-or, indeed, to constitute them in the first place. This volume explores the interrelation of letters and communities in the ancient world, examining how epistolary communication aided in the construction and cultivation of group-identities and communities, whether social, political, religious, ethnic, or philosophical. A theoretically informed Introduction establishes the interface of epistolary discourse and group formation as a vital but hitherto neglected area of research, and is followed by thirteen case studies offering multi-disciplinary perspectives from four key cultural configurations: Greece, Rome, Judaism, and Christianity. The first part opens the volume with two chapters on the theory and practice of epistolary communication that focus on ancient epistolary theory and the unavoidable presence of a letter-carrier who introduces a communal aspect into any correspondence, while the second comprises five chapters that explore configurations of power and epistolary communication in the Greek and Roman worlds, from the archaic period to the end of the Hellenistic age. Five chapters on letters and communities in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity follow in the third, part before the volume concludes with an envoi examining the trans-historical, or indeed timeless, philosophical community Seneca the Younger construes in his Letters to Lucilius.

Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds

Author : Alex Mullen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107013860
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds by : Alex Mullen

Download or read book Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds written by Alex Mullen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs new interdisciplinary approaches to understand multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman worlds, East and West, Classical and medieval.

LETTERS AND COMMUNITIES.

Author : CECCARELLI ET AL (EDS)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191842405
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (424 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis LETTERS AND COMMUNITIES. by : CECCARELLI ET AL (EDS)

Download or read book LETTERS AND COMMUNITIES. written by CECCARELLI ET AL (EDS) and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800

Author : Roger Bagnall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 by : Roger Bagnall

Download or read book Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 written by Roger Bagnall and published by . This book was released on 2006-06-26 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than three hundred letters written in Greek and Egyptian by women in Egypt in the millennium from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest survive on papyrus and pottery. Written by women from various walks of life, they shed light on critical social aspects of life in Egypt after the pharaohs. Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore collect the best preserved letters in translation and set them in their paleographic, linguistic, social, and economic contexts. The authors' analysis suggests that women's habits, interests, and means of expression were a product more of their social and economic standing than of specifically gender-related concerns or behavior. They present theoretical discussions about the handwriting and language of the letters, the education and culture of the writers' everyday concerns and occupations. Numerous illustrations display the varieties of handwriting.

The Ancient Egyptian Universal Writing Modes

Author : Moustafa Gadalla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781931446938
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (469 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Ancient Egyptian Universal Writing Modes by : Moustafa Gadalla

Download or read book The Ancient Egyptian Universal Writing Modes written by Moustafa Gadalla and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will show how the Egyptians had various modes of writings for various purposes, and how the Egyptian modes were falsely designated as "separate languages" belonging to others and how this one original language came to be called Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and other 'languages' throughout the world-through deterioration of sound values via 'sound shifts', as well as foreign degradation of the original Egyptian writing forms. The book is divided into seven parts with a total of 24 chapters, as follows: Part I. Denial, Distortion and Diversion has 3 chapters-Chapters 1 to 3: Chapter 1: The Archetypal Primacy of The Egyptian Alphabet shows the role and remote history of alphabetical letter-forms writing in Ancient Egypt prior to any other place on earth. Chapter 2: The Concealment of The Supreme Egyptian Alphabets will show the incredible western academia scheme to conceal the Ancient Egyptian alphabetical letter-forms from its prominent position in the history of writing. Chapter 3: The Diversion of A Proto-Sinaitic "Phoenician Connection" will uncover all the facts about having "Phoenicians" as the inventor of alphabets on an Egyptian soil! Part II. Formation and Forms of Egyptian Alphabetic Writings has 6 chapters-Chapters 4 to 9: Chapter 4: Genesis of Egyptian Alphabetic Letters/Writing Chapter 5: The Egyptian Sound Organization of Letters will cover the primary three vowels as the originators of all vowel sounds and associated consonants. Chapter 6: The Egyptian Alphabetic Writing Styles will sort out present common confusion of Ancient Egyptian styles of writing and set the two primary styles as uncials and cursive. Chapter 7: The Profession of Egyptian Scribes will cover the range of Egyptian writings; the profession of scribes; writing surfaces & instruments; etc Chapter 8: Multiple Writing Forms of a Single Document Chapter 9: Multiple Writing Forms of The Rosetta Stone Part III. How The One World Language Became The Many has five chapters-Chapters 10 to 14: Chapter 10: The Beacon of the Ancient World Chapter 11: Common Characteristics of Ancient Egyptian Alphabetic Writing System Chapter 12: Letter-forms Divergence of World Alphabets From Its Egyptian Origin Chapter 13: Sound Divergence of World Alphabets From Its Egyptian Origin Chapter 14: Cavalier Designations of New Languages will cover how a new language is awarded as a symbol of identity for winners of wars and new religions; etc Part IV. The Primary Linguistic Characteristics of The Egyptian Language has one chapter-Chapter 15: Chapter 15: The Primary Linguistic Characteristics of The Egyptian Language Part V. Out of Egypt-Diffusion Patterns To Asia and Africa has 5 chapters-Chapters 16 to 20: Chapter 16: Hebrew and Moses of Egypt Chapter 17: The Ancient Egyptian Hegemony of Asiatic Neighbors will discuss the found scripts in North and South Arabia; and clear up all apparent differences between them and the Ancient Egyptian writing system. Chapter 18: The African Connections Chapter 19: From Egypt To India and Beyond Chapter 20: From Egypt to The Black Sea Basin [Georgia & Armenia] will cover affinities of languages from Central Asia To the Black Sea Basin; etc Part VI. Out of Egypt-Diffusion Patterns To Europe has two chapters-Chapters 21 & 22: Chapter 21: Greek: A Shameless Linguistic Heist will cover the pre-existence of the proclaimed "Greek" alphabetical letter-forms in the Ancient Egyptian system; the absence of any linguistic distinction between Greek and the Ancient Egyptian language;etc Chapter 22: The European Languages will cover Etruscan, Latin and Hispanic languages; and the absence of any linguistic distinction between them and the Ancient Egyptian language. Part VII. The Ancient Future of The Universal Language has two chapters-Chapters 23 & 24: Chapter 23: Egyptian Alphabetical Vocalic Language [Past, Present & Future] Chapter 24: Renaissance & Seeking the Universal Language.

Languages in Contact

Author : Uriel Weinreich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783111748894
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (488 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Languages in Contact by : Uriel Weinreich

Download or read book Languages in Contact written by Uriel Weinreich and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remains the fundamental base for studies of multilingual communities and language shift. Weinreich laid out the concepts, principles and issues that govern empirical work in this field, and it has not been replaced by any later general treatment. Prof. Dr. William Labov, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics"

The Multilingual Internet

Author : Brenda Danet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195304802
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Multilingual Internet by : Brenda Danet

Download or read book The Multilingual Internet written by Brenda Danet and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devoted to analysing internet related CMC in languages other than English, this volume collects 18 new articles on facets of language and internet use, all of which revolve around several central topics : writing systems, the structure and features of local languages and how they affect internet use, gender issues, and so on--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Letters from Ancient Egypt

Author : Edmund S. Meltzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (278 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Letters from Ancient Egypt by : Edmund S. Meltzer

Download or read book Letters from Ancient Egypt written by Edmund S. Meltzer and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Understanding Relations Between Scripts II

Author : Philippa M. Steele
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789250951
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Understanding Relations Between Scripts II by : Philippa M. Steele

Download or read book Understanding Relations Between Scripts II written by Philippa M. Steele and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets is the first volume in this series, bringing together ten experts on ancient writing, languages and archaeology to present a set of diverse studies on the early development of alphabetic writing systems and their spread across the Levant and Mediterranean during the second and first millennia BC. By taking an interdisciplinary perspective, it sheds new light on alphabetic writing not just as a tool for recording language but also as an element of culture.

Ancient Mesopotamia

Author : A. Leo Oppenheim
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022617767X
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ancient Mesopotamia by : A. Leo Oppenheim

Download or read book Ancient Mesopotamia written by A. Leo Oppenheim and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."—Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East. Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun. "To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is one of the most valuable books ever written."—Leonard Cottrell, Book Week "Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated over the past hundred years in the field of Assyriological research."—Samuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology A. Leo Oppenheim, one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, was editor in charge of the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.

Religion and Memory in Tacitus' Annals

Author : Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192569104
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Religion and Memory in Tacitus' Annals by : Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson

Download or read book Religion and Memory in Tacitus' Annals written by Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his narrative of Julio-Claudian Rome in the Annals, Tacitus includes numerous references to the gods, fate, fortune, astrology, omens, temples, priests, the emperor cult, and other religious material. Though scholars have long considered Tacitus' discussion of religion of minor importance, this volume demonstrates the significance of such references to an understanding of the work as a whole by analyzing them using cultural memory theory, which views religious ritual as a key component in any society's efforts to create a lived version of the past that helps define cultural identity in the present. Tacitus, who was not only an historian, but also a member of Rome's quindecimviral priesthood, shows a marked interest in even the most detailed rituals of Roman religious life, yet his portrayal of religious material also suggests that the system is under threat with the advent of the principate. Some traditional rituals are forgotten as the shape of the Roman state changes while, simultaneously, a new form of cultic commemoration develops as deceased emperors are deified and the living emperor and his family members are treated in increasingly worshipful ways by his subjects. This study traces the deployment of religious material throughout Tacitus' narrative in order to show how he views the development of this cultic "amnesia" over time, from the reign of the cryptic, autocratic, and oddly mystical Tiberius, through Claudius' failed attempts at reviving tradition, to the final sacrilegious disasters of the impious Nero. As the first book-length treatment of religion in the Annals, it reveals how these references are a key vehicle for his assessment of the principate as a system of government, the activities of individual emperors, and their impact on Roman society and cultural identity.