Monthly meeting of the EVWRIT team to discuss and develop a new theoretical perspective towards communication practices in Antiquity.
Once a month from January 2019, the EVWRIT team will meet to discuss and develop a new theoretical perspective towards communication practices in Antiquity.
Theoretical sessions on fundamental aspects of novel methodologies (cognitive sociolinguistics, social semiotics, paléographie signifiante…) will be interchanged with practical ones (doing statistics, showing a database, presenting a paper…).
The reading group is open to anyone interested.
In this session of the reading group, we will discuss language contact and multilingualism in antiquity, with a further focus on bigraphism. The moderator for this session is Antonia Apostolakou. The recommended literature for this session is the following:
- Langslow, D. R. 2002. Approaching Bilingualism in Corpus Languages. In: Adams, J. N., Janse, M. and Swain, S. (eds.) Bilingualism in Ancient Society: Language Contact and the Written Word. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 23-51.
- Adams, J. N. 2003. Bilingualism and the Latin Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (“Transliterated texts”, pp. 40-67)
- Mullen, A. 2012. Introduction: Multiple Languages, Multiple Identities. In: Mullen, A. and James, P. (eds.) Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-35. (pp. 11-35)
The session will be held in English.
For further questions or remarks, contact Antonia Apostolakou at Antonia.Apostolakou@UGent.be.
For more information about the EVWRIT project, see http://www.evwrit.ugent.be/.