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
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