Bilingualism In Ancient Society
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Bilingualism In Ancient Society
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Author : James Noel Adams
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2002
Bilingualism In Ancient Society written by James Noel Adams and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Bilingualism In Ancient Society
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Author : James Noel Adams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Bilingualism In Ancient Society written by James Noel Adams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Bilingualism categories.
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.
Bilingualism And The Latin Language
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Author : James Noel Adams
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-01-09
Bilingualism And The Latin Language written by James Noel Adams and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-09 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Since the 1980s, bilingualism has become one of the main themes of sociolinguistics - but there are as yet few large-scale treatments of the subject specific to the ancient world. This book is the first work to deal systematically with bilingualism during a period of antiquity (the Roman period, down to about the fourth century AD) in the light of sociolinguistic discussions of bilingual issues. The general theme of the work is the nature of the contact between Latin and numerous other languages spoken in the Roman world. Among the many issues discussed three are prominent: code-switching (the practice of switching between two languages in the course of a single utterance) and its motivation, language contact as a cause of change in one or both of the languages in contact, and the part played by language choice and language switching in the establishment of personal and group identities.
Language And Society In The Greek And Roman Worlds
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Author : James Clackson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-30
Language And Society In The Greek And Roman Worlds written by James Clackson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with History categories.
You are what you speak. What does language tell us about ancient societies and individuals?
Translation As Scholarship
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Author : Jay Crisostomo
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-01-14
Translation As Scholarship written by Jay Crisostomo and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-14 with Religion categories.
In the first half of the 2d millennium BCE, translation occasionally depicted semantically incongruous correspondences. Such cases reflect ancient scribes substantiating their virtuosity with cuneiform writing by capitalizing on phonologic, graphemic, semantic, and other resemblances in the interlingual space. These scholar–scribes employed an essential scribal practice, analogical hermeneutics, an interpretative activity grounded in analogical reasoning and empowered by the potentiality of the cuneiform script. Scribal education systematized such practices, allowing scribes to utilize these habits in copying compositions and creating translations. In scribal education, analogical hermeneutics is exemplified in the word list "Izi", both in its structure and in its occasional bilingualism. By examining "Izi" as a product of the social field of scribal education, this book argues that scribes used analogical hermeneutics to cultivate their craft and establish themselves as knowledgeable scribes. Within a linguistic epistemology of cuneiform scribal culture, translation is a tool in the hands of a knowledgeable scholar.
The Multilingual Experience In Egypt From The Ptolemies To The Abbasids
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Author : Arietta Papaconstantinou
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-14
The Multilingual Experience In Egypt From The Ptolemies To The Abbasids written by Arietta Papaconstantinou and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-14 with History categories.
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
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Author : Louis C. Jonker
language : en
Publisher: African Sun Media
Release Date : 2021-05-03
Multilingualism In Ancient Contexts written by Louis C. Jonker and has been published by African Sun Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Multilingualism In The Graeco Roman Worlds
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Author : Alex Mullen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-09-06
Multilingualism In The Graeco Roman Worlds written by Alex Mullen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-06 with Education categories.
This book employs new interdisciplinary approaches to understand multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman worlds, East and West, Classical and medieval.
Ancient Indo European Languages Between Linguistics And Philology
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-04-04
Ancient Indo European Languages Between Linguistics And Philology written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume contains a new and up-to date selection of case studies which offer new insights on various topics in Indo-European linguistics, with a focus on contact, variation, and reconstruction, and with methods that straddle the divide between Linguistics and Philology.
Language And Linguistic Contact In Ancient Sicily Edited By Olga Tribulato
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Author : Olga Tribulato
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-14
Language And Linguistic Contact In Ancient Sicily Edited By Olga Tribulato written by Olga Tribulato and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with Bilingualism categories.
Within the field of ancient bilingualism, Sicily represents a unique terrain for analysis as a result of its incredibly rich linguistic history, in which 'colonial' languages belonging to branches as diverse as Italic (Oscan and Latin), Greek and Semitic (Phoenician) interacted with the languages of the natives (the elusive Sicel, Sicanian and Elymian). The result of this ancient melting-pot was a culture characterised by 'postcolonial' features such as ethnic hybridity, multilingualism and artistic and literary experimentation. While Greek soon emerged as the leading language, dominating official communication and literature, epigraphic sources and indirect evidence show that the minority languages held their ground down to the fifth century BCE, and in some cases beyond. The first two parts of the volume discuss these languages and their interaction with Greek, while the third part focuses on the sociolinguistic revolution brought about by the arrival of the Romans.