Seeing the (smaller and) bigger frame : framing Late Antique Egyptian writers and documents through bilingual and biscriptal choices
(2025)
Everyday communication in Antiquity : frames and framings.
In Lexis Supplementi
18.
p.217-243
- Author
- Antonia Apostolakou (UGent)
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- Visual Multilingualism: A Socio-semiotic Approach to Script Choices in Late Antique Documentary Papyri
- EVWRIT (Everyday Writing in Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (I - VIII AD). A Socio-Semiotic Study of Communicative Variation)
- Abstract
- The paper uses framing theory to explore the role of register in the occurrence of bilingual and biscriptal phenomena in different parts of late antique and early Islamic documentary papyri (fourth-eighth c. AD) with Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Arabic. Framing proves relevant on both the (con)textual and sociohistorical levels, especially at the edges of texts across registers, while ‘body’ variation is limited to more formal texts. Formulaicity is crucial, as changes pertain to fixed phrases that mark the structure of the document, often supported by (palaeo)graphic changes. Variation also serves culturally shaped symbolic functions (group membership, prestige, legal validity), building a multilayered message.
- Keywords
- Late antiquity, Bilingualism, Papyrology, Register, Framing
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01J5125955A5N3EPRBS0P7JY45
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- Apostolakou, Antonia. “Seeing the (Smaller and) Bigger Frame : Framing Late Antique Egyptian Writers and Documents through Bilingual and Biscriptal Choices.” Everyday Communication in Antiquity : Frames and Framings, edited by Klaas Bentein, vol. 18, Ca’Foscari, 2025, pp. 217–43, doi:10.30687/978-88-6969-886-6/007.
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- Apostolakou, A. (2025). Seeing the (smaller and) bigger frame : framing Late Antique Egyptian writers and documents through bilingual and biscriptal choices. In K. Bentein (Ed.), Everyday communication in Antiquity : frames and framings (Vol. 18, pp. 217–243). https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-886-6/007
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- Apostolakou, Antonia. 2025. “Seeing the (Smaller and) Bigger Frame : Framing Late Antique Egyptian Writers and Documents through Bilingual and Biscriptal Choices.” In Everyday Communication in Antiquity : Frames and Framings, edited by Klaas Bentein, 18:217–43. Venezia: Ca’Foscari. https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-886-6/007.
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- Apostolakou, Antonia. 2025. “Seeing the (Smaller and) Bigger Frame : Framing Late Antique Egyptian Writers and Documents through Bilingual and Biscriptal Choices.” In Everyday Communication in Antiquity : Frames and Framings, ed by. Klaas Bentein, 18:217–243. Venezia: Ca’Foscari. doi:10.30687/978-88-6969-886-6/007.
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- 1.Apostolakou A. Seeing the (smaller and) bigger frame : framing Late Antique Egyptian writers and documents through bilingual and biscriptal choices. In: Bentein K, editor. Everyday communication in Antiquity : frames and framings. Venezia: Ca’Foscari; 2025. p. 217–43.
- IEEE
- [1]A. Apostolakou, “Seeing the (smaller and) bigger frame : framing Late Antique Egyptian writers and documents through bilingual and biscriptal choices,” in Everyday communication in Antiquity : frames and framings, vol. 18, K. Bentein, Ed. Venezia: Ca’Foscari, 2025, pp. 217–243.
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