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Project

Visual Multilingualism: A Socio-semiotic Approach to Script Choices in Late Antique Documentary Papyri
Code
01CD6222
Duration
07 January 2023 → 06 July 2023
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Greek language
    • Sociolinguistics
    • Writing systems
Keywords
papyrology late antiquity digraphia Interculturalism Linguistics Communication
 
Project description
 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.