Everyday Communication in Antiquity: Frames and Framings

Everyday Communication in Antiquity: Frames and Framings

a cura di Klaas Bentein - Universiteit Gent, België 

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Volume 18 | Miscellanea | Everyday Communication in Antiquity: Frames and Framings  

This volume explores everyday communication practices in Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt, with a particular focus on Greek papyri and related sources. It examines how language, layout, and materiality – manifesting overtly or subtly, at global and local levels – shaped the production and interpretation of texts. Grounded in a ‘frame-based’ approach, the chapters draw on sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and multimodality to reveal how ancient writers and readers constructed meaning and articulated identities across genres, languages, and cultural contexts.

dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-886-6
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2025-04-24
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-887-3/
dc.identifier.issn	2210-8866
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-3362
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-887-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-886-6
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
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• Exploring Frame-Based Approaches to Everyday Communication in Antiquity
• Klaas Bentein
• 24 Aprile 2025

Section 1. Material and Visual Framings

• Medium, Procedures and Conventions
  A Framework for Analyzing the Materiality of Documents on Papyrus
• Serena Causo
• 24 Aprile 2025

Section 2. Discursive Framings

• Connecting Intersubjectivity, Politeness and Stance with Wishes in the Post-Classical Greek Papyri
• Ezra la Roi
• 24 Aprile 2025

• Spacing Out Speech Acts
  Textual Units and Their Visual Organization in Greek Letters on Papyrus
• Klaas Bentein, Marta Capano
• 24 Aprile 2025

• Frames, Framings and Beyond
  Afterthoughts and Other Discoursal ‘Add-Ons’ in Greek Private Letter Writing
• Klaas Bentein, Marianna Thoma
• 24 Aprile 2025

Section 3. Socio-Cultural Framings

• The Influence of Atticism on Non-Literary Papyri: The Case of θᾶττον
• Chiara Monaco
• 24 Aprile 2025

• Seeing the (Smaller and) Bigger Frame: Framing Late Antique Egyptian Writers and Documents Through Bilingual and Biscriptal Choices
• Antonia Apostolakou
• 24 Aprile 2025

• Requests in the Qurra Dossier
  A Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Approach
• Fokelien Kootstra-Ford, Klaas Bentein
• 24 Aprile 2025

Section 4. Intratextual Framings

• Framing the Bad Guys: Continuative Clauses in the Depiction of the Wrongdoer in Papyrus Petitions
• Eleonora Cattafi
• 24 Aprile 2025

• Competing Grammars and Language Change: Evidence from Correction and Revision Processes in the Private Papyri from Ptolemaic Egypt
• Carla Bruno
• 24 Aprile 2025