Bilingualism in Ancient Society

Language Contact and the Written Word
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-924506-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 494 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 825 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adams, J. N.

Janse, Mark

Swain, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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