Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity : Towards a Historical Social-Semiotic Approach /
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...
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Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2023.
Series:
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ;
41.
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Call Number: PA3343
| Summary: | 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 of 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004526518 9789004526525 |