Koines, standards, and what’s behind them : capturing linguistic norms in Greek official writing
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- Klaas Bentein (UGent)
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- EVWRIT (Everyday Writing in Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (I - VIII AD). A Socio-Semiotic Study of Communicative Variation)
- Abstract
- While the concepts of ‘standard’ and ‘Koine’ have become central in current discussions of language variation and change in the Classical and especially Post-classical periods, they are surrounded by confusion. In this contribution, I propose to supplement a Koine/standard-based approach by focusing on linguistic norms: while linguistic norms have received some attention in current scholarly work, the different methods to retrieve them have not been explicitly compared, and they have not been based on a firm theoretical understanding of the concept of ‘norm’. On the basis of a new norm typology, I show that the different methods that can be used to retrieve linguistic norms do not overlap: they retrieve different types of norms. Rather than preferring one approach over the other, I suggest that future research may invest in a combined approach.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01HAKKVK1DBCV6PEKHVH0AADPK
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- Bentein, Klaas. “Koines, Standards, and What’s behind Them : Capturing Linguistic Norms in Greek Official Writing.” Redefining the Standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism, edited by Chiara Monaco et al., vol. 6, Brill, 2024, pp. 37–74, doi:10.1163/9789004687318_003.
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- Bentein, K. (2024). Koines, standards, and what’s behind them : capturing linguistic norms in Greek official writing. In C. Monaco, R. Machado, & E. Bozia (Eds.), Redefining the standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism (Vol. 6, pp. 37–74). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004687318_003
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- Bentein, Klaas. 2024. “Koines, Standards, and What’s behind Them : Capturing Linguistic Norms in Greek Official Writing.” In Redefining the Standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism, edited by Chiara Monaco, Robert Machado, and Eleni Bozia, 6:37–74. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004687318_003.
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- Bentein, Klaas. 2024. “Koines, Standards, and What’s behind Them : Capturing Linguistic Norms in Greek Official Writing.” In Redefining the Standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism, ed by. Chiara Monaco, Robert Machado, and Eleni Bozia, 6:37–74. Leiden: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004687318_003.
- Vancouver
- 1.Bentein K. Koines, standards, and what’s behind them : capturing linguistic norms in Greek official writing. In: Monaco C, Machado R, Bozia E, editors. Redefining the standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism. Leiden: Brill; 2024. p. 37–74.
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- [1]K. Bentein, “Koines, standards, and what’s behind them : capturing linguistic norms in Greek official writing,” in Redefining the standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism, vol. 6, C. Monaco, R. Machado, and E. Bozia, Eds. Leiden: Brill, 2024, pp. 37–74.
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