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Visual Multilingualism: A Socio-semiotic Approach to Script Choices in Late Antique Documentary Papyri

This PhD project focuses on the study of visual aspects of multilingual phenomena in documentary papyri from late antiquity, and particularly phenomena related to script choice. It uses theoretical concepts and methods from socio-semiotics, sociolinguistics, and language contact studies, relating non-standard writing practices to their socio-historical environment, to obtain a more complete understanding of everyday multilingual communication in Egyptian antiquity.
Date:7 Jan 2023 →  6 Jul 2023
Keywords:papyrology, digraphia, late antiquity
Disciplines:Writing systems, Greek language, Sociolinguistics