Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Mullen, Alex

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Through words and images employed both by individuals and by a range of communities across the Graeco-Roman worlds, this book explores the complexity of multilingual representations of identity. Starting with the advent of literacy in the Mediterranean, it encompasses not just the Greek and Roman empires but also the transformation of the Graeco-Roman world under Islam and within the medieval mind. By treating a range of materials, contexts, languages, and temporal and political boundaries, the contributors consider points of cross-cultural similarity and difference and the changing linguistic landscape of East and West from antiquity into the medieval period. Insights from contemporary multilingualism theory and interdisciplinary perspectives are employed throughout to exploit the material fully.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139558174
• Artikelnr.: 38457385

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: multiple languages, multiple identities Alex Mullen; 2.
Language maintenance and language shift in the Mediterranean world during
the Roman Empire James Clackson; 3. Why did Coptic fail where Aramaic
succeeded? Linguistic development in Egypt and the Near East after the Arab
conquest Arietta Papaconstantinou; 4. Language contact in the pre-Roman and
Roman Iberian peninsula: direct and indirect evidence Oliver Simkin; 5.
Complaints of the natives in a Greek dress: the Zenon Archive and the
problem of Egyptian interference Trevor Evans; 6. Linguae sacrae in ancient
and medieval sources: an anthropological approach to ritual language
Alderik Blom; 7. Typologies of translation techniques in Greek and Latin
David Langslow; 8. Greek in early medieval Ireland Pádraic Moran; 9. An
habes linguam Latinam? Non tam bene sapio: views of multilingualism from
the early medieval West Paul Russell; 10. Towards an archaeology of
bilingualism: on the study of Greek-Coptic education in late antique Egypt
Scott Bucking; 11. Neo-Punic and Latin inscriptions in Roman North Africa:
function and display Andrew Wilson; 12. Cultures as languages and languages
as cultures Robin Osborne.