Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity : : Towards a Historical Social-Semiotic Approach / / edited by Klaas Bentein and Yasmine Amory.

• Superior document: Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; volume 41
• TeilnehmendeR: Bentein, Klaas,; Amory, Yasmine,
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; volume 41.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004526528
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Klaas Bentein and Yasmine Amory.

"Documentary texts are vital to our understanding of many aspects of the ancient world, such as its administration, education, and economy. The value of these texts goes even further however: being autographs, they directly testify to ancient communication practices, a field of study which so far has remained underexplored. In this volume, specialists in the field engage with a broad range documentary sources. They discuss not only how various modes of communication, such as language, handwriting, and lay-out, are employed in specific contexts of writing, but also how these different modes are interrelated. Building on insights from contemporary social semiotic theory, the volume makes a case for the establishment of historical social semiotics as a discipline. Contributors are: Yasmine Amory, Klaas Bentein, Sarah Béthume, Eleonora Conti, Mark Depauw, Jean-Luc Fournet, Antonella Ghignoli, Geert de Mol, Nicola Reggiani, Marco Stroppa, Sofía Torallas Tovar, Jimmy Wolfe"--