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)

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Editorial Notation -- Introduction: Developing a Historical Social-Semiotic Approach to Communication Practices in Antiquity -- Part 1 A Novel Approach to the Visual and Material Characteristics of Ancient Documents -- Chapter 1 Beyond the Text or the Contribution of "Paléographie signifiante" in Documentary Papyrology: The Example of Formats in Late Antiquity -- Chapter 2 BIG &amp -- Small: The Size of Documents as a Semiotic Resource for Graeco-Roman Egypt -- Chapter 3 Notes on Ostraca and Scribal Practice -- Chapter 4 Visual Signs of Deference in Late Antique Greek Letters on Papyrus -- Chapter 5 The Spread and Persistence of Roman Features in Some Greek Papyrus Letters of the High Chancery -- Chapter 6 Applied Category Analysis for Interpreting a List in the Late Antique Documentary Tradition: Some Preliminary Considerations -- Part 2 A Multi-Modal Approach to Ancient Sources -- Chapter 7 The Textualization of Women's Letters from Roman Egypt: Analyzing Historical Framing Practices from a Multi-Modal Point of View -- Chapter 8 Towards a Socio-Semiotic Analysis of Greek Medical Prescriptions on Papyrus -- Chapter 9 Imagining Faith: Images, Scripts, and Texts of Early Christian Inscriptions from the Roman Near East -- Chapter 10 The "Exposed Writings": Semiotic Contributions to the Analysis of Linguistic Variability in Archaic Greek Inscriptions -- Part 3 A Quantitative Approach to Linguistic Variation in Papyri -- Chapter 11 Ὀκτώ or ὀκτώι: Reconsidering Orthographic Hypercorrection in Antiquity -- Chapter 12 Word-Split Frequency in Greek Documentary Papyri (with an Appendix on Syllabification) -- Index of Passages Cited -- Index of Subjects.