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 the phenomenon of Atticism. The moderator for this session is Emmanuel Roumanis. The recommended literature for this session is the following:
- Karyolemou, M. ‘What Can Sociolinguistics Tell us about Learned Literary Languages?’, The Language of Byzantine Learned Literature, 34-51. Turnhout: Brepols.
- Lee, J. A. L. ‘The Atticist Grammarians’, S. E. Porter and A. W. Pitts (eds.) The Language of the New Testament, 283-308. Leiden: Brill.
- Strobel, C. ‘The Lexica of the Second Sophistic: Safeguarding Atticism’, A. Georgakopoulou and M. Silk (eds) Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present, 93–107: Farnham & Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
- Bonus chapter: Valente, S. ‘Old and New Lexica in Palaeologan Byzantium’, A. M. Cuomo and E. Trapp (eds.) Toward a Historical Sociolinguistic Poetics of Medieval Greek, 45-55. Turnhout: Brepols.
The session will be held in English.
For further questions or remarks, contact Emmanuel Roumanis at Emmanuel.Roumanis@UGent.be.
For more information about the EVWRIT project, see http://www.evwrit.ugent.be/.