TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klaas Bentein
AU  - Yasmine Amory
TI  - Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity: Towards a Historical Social-Semiotic Approach
SN  - 9789004526518
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Classical manuscripts (Papyri)
KW  - Congresses
KW  - 2019
KW  - Ghent
KW  - Communication
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - "This volume contains selected and thoroughly revised versions of papers presented at the international conference "Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity: Towards a Historical Socio-Semiotic Approach." Held at the cultural center Het Pand in Ghent from October 3 to 5, 2019"; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
ER  -