The volume deals with the mechanisms of the oral communication in the
ancient Greek culture. Considering the critical debate about orality,
the analysis of the communicative system in a predominantly oral-aural
ancient society implies a reassessment and a deep reconsideration of the
traces which orality embedded in the texts transmitted to us. In
particular, the focus is on the 'cultural message', a set of information
which is processed and transmitted vertically as well as horizontally
by a living being, so to be differently from a genetically encoded
information, a culturally defined process. The survey intertwines
different approaches: the methodologies of cognitivism, biology,
ethology, to analyze the embrional processes of the cultural messages,
and the tools of historical and literary analysis, to highlight the
development of the cultural messages in the traditional knowledge, their
codification, transmission, and evolutions in the dialectics between
orality and writing. The reconstructed pattern of the mechanisms of
cultural messages in a prevailing oral-aural system cast a light on a
shadowy aspect of a sophisticated communication system that has long
influenced European culture.
Language:
English
Publisher:De Gruyter
Copyright year:2022
Audience:Scholars and students of Classical Studies, Greek Language and Literature, Linguistics, Cultural Studies and Media Theory
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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