J. N. Adams / Mark Janse / Simon Swain (eds.)

Bilingualism in Ancient Society

Language Contact and the Written Word
Herausgeber: Adams, J N; Swain, S.; Janse, M.

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Produktbeschreibung

Bilingualism - the field of language contact - has seen an explosion of work in recent years, yet relatively little of this has focused on written texts. This volume aims to introduce classicists, ancient historians, and other scholars interested in sociolinguistic research to the evidence of bilingualism in the ancient Mediterranean world. Language contact intruded into virtually every aspect of ancient life, and topics which have been fashionable in sociolinguistics for some time have now begun to attract the attention of scholars working in Graceo-Roman studies. The fifteen original essays in this collection, which have been written by well-regarded experts, cover theoretical and methodological issues and key aspects of the contact between Latin and Greek and among Latin, Greek, and other languages. The collection is held together by a wide-ranging introduction which discusses the many important topics recurring in the volume in the light of current work in classics and sociolinguistics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 494
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 146mm x 47mm
• Gewicht: 774g
• ISBN-13: 9780199245062
• ISBN-10: 0199245061
• Artikelnr.: 22368317

Autorenporträt

J.N. Adams is Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford M. Janse is Editor, Biographie Linguistique, The Hague, and Associate Professor of Greek and General Linguistics S. Swain is Professor of Classics, University of Warwick

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: J. N. Adams and S. Swain: Introduction
* 1 Introductory
* 2: D. Langslow: Approaching Bilingualism in Corpus Languages
* 3: K. Versteegh: Dead or Alive? the Status of the Standard Language
* 2. Greek-Latin Bilingualism
* 4: F. Biville: Greco-Romans and Greco-Latin: a Terminological
Framework for Cases of Bilingualism
* 5: J. N. Adams: Bilingualism at Delos
* 6: S. Swain: Bilingualism in Cicero? The Evidence of Code-Switching
* 7: M. Leiwo: From Contact to Mixture: Bilingual Inscriptions from
Italy
* 3. Greek and other Languages
* 8: I. Rutherford: Interference of Translationese? Some Patterns in
Lycian-Greek Bilingualism
* 9: P. Fewster: Bilingualism in Roman Egypt
* 10: C. Brixhe: Greek and Phrygian in the High Roman Empire
* 11: Z. Rubin: Res Gestae Divi Saporis: Greek and Middle Iranian in a
Document of Sasanian, anti-Roman propaganda
* 12: D. Taylor: Bilingualism and Diglossia in Late Antique Syria and
Mesopotamis
* 13: M. Janse: Aspects of Bilingualism in the History of the Greek
Language
* 4. Latin and Other Languages
* 14: P. Burton: Assessing Latin-Gothic Interaction
* 15: P. Flobert: Latin-Frankish Bilingualism in Sixth-Century Gaul:
the Latin of Clovis