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Why say goodbye twice? Repetition and involvement in the Greek epistolary frame (I-IV AD) Ghent University
A typology of variations in the Ancient Greek epistolary frame (I–III AD) Ghent University
Whereas scholarship has engaged in depth with the formulaic struc-ture of non-literary texts such as private letters, less attention has been paid to the variations we can find to that fixed structure. In this contribution, I propose a framework to describe such variations, distinguishing between reformulations, additions, omissions, repetitions, combinations, and displacements. My discus-sion of these procedures will be embedded in an approach ...
Introduction : developing a historical social-semiotic approach to communication practices in Antiquity Ghent University
This introductory chapter stresses the importance of studying the social dimensions of writing in antiquity. Scholars working within a number of papyrological and epigraphical paradigms—whether materially, spatially, or linguistically oriented—have made the same point, but so far little attention has been paid to what modern-day communication the-ory has to say. This introduction argues for the relevance of one such framework in particular, ...
The textualization of women’s letters from Roman Egypt : analyzing historical framing practices from a multi-modal point of view Ghent University
The textualization of literary works with an oral background such as the Homeric epics or the New Testament has come under renewed attention in recent years, but much less attention has been paid to non-literary sources. This contribu-tion focuses on the corpus of women’s letters from Egypt and suggests that the notion of “framing” is central to our un-derstanding of textualization practices. It argues for a complex, “multi-modal” understanding ...
ΜΕΝ solitarium in non-literary papyri : a reconsideration Ghent University
Previous scholarship has observed that the occurrence of µέν without a corresponding δέ (so-called µέν solitarium) is not an uncommon phenomenon in Post-classical Greek, including non-literary papyri. It has been suggested that such instances are best captured by considering them “elliptically antithetical” (“prospective”). In this contribution, I show that when it comes to the papyri, µέν can be found in other contexts, too. I explain the ...
The syntax of δέ in post-classical documentary texts Ghent University
Δέ is one of the most frequently attested particles in Ancient Greek. Recent studies, most of which focusing on the Classical period, have analyzed this particle as a “discourse marker”, signaling thematic discontinuity between sentences. While there have been far fewer studies of Post-classical Greek, there seems to be little disagreement that the function of the particle remained essentially the same in later periods of Greek. The main aim of ...
γινώσκειν σε οὖν θέλω : causal particles and their semantic development in Post-classical Greek Ghent University
Grieks in Egypte : niet-literaire teksten als bron voor historisch-sociolinguïstisch onderzoek Ghent University
Deictic shifting in Greek contractual writing (I-IV AD) Ghent University
Much attention has been paid to ‘deictic shifts’ or shifts in perspective in Ancient Greek literary texts: studies have drawn attention, for example, to switches from indirect to direct speech, causing a particular narrative effect. In this article, I show that similar phenomena can be found in documentary texts. Contracts in particular display unexpected shifts from the first to the third person or vice versa. Rather than constituting a ...