30.3357, Confs: Sociolinguistics/Belgium

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Subject: 30.3357, Confs: Sociolinguistics/Belgium

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Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 23:57:22
From: Yasmine Amory [yasmine.amory at ugent.be]
Subject: Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity. Towards a Historical Socio-Semiotic Approach

 
Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity. Towards a Historical Socio-Semiotic Approach 

Date: 03-Oct-2019 - 05-Oct-2019 
Location: Ghent, Belgium 
Contact: Yasmine Amory 
Contact Email: yasmine.amory at ugent.be 
Meeting URL: https://www.novelperspectives.ugent.be/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The main aim of this conference, which forms the opening event of the
ERC-project ‘Everyday writing in Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt. A
socio-semiotic study of communicative variation’ (2018-2023;
www.evwrit.ugent.be), is to explore to what extent it is possible and
desirable to found a discipline such as historical social-semiotics, parallel
to historical socio-linguistics. Such a novel, interdisciplinary approach is
particularly relevant for ‘everyday’ documentary texts: since these texts
represent autographs, their external characteristics can also be brought into
the interpretation. Jean-Luc Fournet (2007), for example, has recently argued
for a ‘paléographie signifiante’, noting that ‘l’analyse matérielle d’un
document peut être porteuse de sens’ (2007:353), not only when it comes to
text type, but also with regard to the socio-cultural context of writing, and
the provenance of the document. Other external characteristics to be
considered as expressions of social meaning (functioning as ‘semiotic
resources’) are – but are not limited to – writing material, document format,
and language choice. Their analysis reveals information concerning hierarchy,
status and social relations.
 

Program:

Thursday, October 3, 2019

8:45-9:15: 
Registration

9:15-9:30: 
Welcome Greetings

Morning session: Genre and multimodality
Chairperson: Klaas Bentein

9:30-10:00: 
Klaas Bentein (Ghent University)
Introduction

10:00-10:30: 
Sarah Béthume (INCAL/CEMA, UCLouvain)
“The ‘exposed writings’: how the study of the ‘pluricode’ message of ancient
Greek inscriptions can shed light on the archaic and classical dialectal
variation”

10:30-11:00: 
Nicola Reggiani (University of Parma)
“Towards a socio-semiotic analysis of Greek medical prescriptions on papyrus”

11:00-11:30: Coffee Break

11:30-12:00: 
Francesca Murano & Mariarosaria Zinzi (University of Florence)
“A social-semiotic analysis of Greek defixiones from South Italy”

12:00-12:30:
Jimmy Wolfe (The Ohio State University)
“Imagining faith: images, scripts, and texts of early Christian inscriptions
from the Roman Near East”

12:30-14:00: Lunch Break

Afternoon session: Texts and intra-semiosis
Chairperson: Yasmine Amory

14:00-14:45: 
Key-note speaker, Antonella Ghignoli (Sapienza – University of Rome)
“This is the catalogue! A so far unknown latin documentary papyrus from 6th
century Italy”

14:45-15:15: 
Martti Leiwo (University of Helsinki)
“Hands and language in ostraca letters from Roman praesidia in Egypt”

15:15-15:45: 
Giulio Iovine (University of Naples “Federico II”)
“Descriptum et recognitum. A survey of Latin closing and acknowledging
formulae in Latin and Greek papyri and ostraca”

15:45-16:15: Coffee Break

16:15-16:45: 
Antonia Apostolakou (Ghent University)
“How to sign a contract in Late Antique Egypt: a study of linguistic
variation”

16:45-17:15: 
Simona Russo (Istituto papirologico “G. Vitelli”)
“Rome as New York, fashion capital?”

 
* Reception at Alice

 
Friday, October 4, 2019

Morning session: Sociolinguistic variation
Chairperson: Mark Janse

9:15-10:00: 
Key-note speaker, James Clackson (University of Cambridge)
“Standard languages, language standards and language norms in the Greco-Roman
world”

10:00-10:30: 
Polina Yordanova (University of Helsinki)
“Тhe forest’s broken branches: discontinuity in Greek word order in
documentary papyri from III c BCE to III c CE”

10:30-11:00: 
Alek Keersmaekers (UK Leuven)
“Sociolinguistic variation in the Greek papyri: a corpus-based, bottom-up
approach”

11:00-11:30: Coffee Break

11:30-12:00: 
Emmanuel Roumanis & Geert De Mol (Ghent University)
“The Abinnaeus archive: lexical and orthographic features”

12:00-12:30: 
Alessandro Papini (Ghent University)
“A preliminary investigation on the graphemic oscillations in Italian Latin
inscriptions of the Republican age”

12:30-14:00: Lunch Break

Afternoon session: Visual and material aspects of texts
Chairperson: Joanne Stolk

14:00-14:45: 
Key-note speaker, Jean-Luc Fournet (Collège de France – EPHE)
“Beyond the text: the contribution of the ‘paléographie signifiante’”

14:45-15:15: 
Marco Stroppa (Istituto papirologico “G. Vitelli”)
“Big & small: the size of documents as a semiotic resource for Graeco-Roman
Egypt?”

15:15-15:45: 
Nina Sietis (Sapienza – University of Rome)
“Abbreviations in Greek documentary texts. A case study of ‘significant
palaeography’”

15:45-16:15: Coffee Break

16:15-16:45: 
Eleonora Conti (Istituto papirologico “G. Vitelli”)
“Spread and persistence of Latin document features in some Greek letters of
high chancery on papyrus”

16:45-17:15: 
Yasmine Amory (Ghent University)
“Visual signs of deference in Late Antique letters”

17:30: 
Visit at the Archaeological Collection of Ghent University at Het Pand

19:30: Dinner at Sint Jorishof (optional, pre-reservation required)

 

Saturday, October 5, 2019

Morning session: Multimodal aspects of writing
Chairperson: Giovanbattista Galdi

9:15-10:00: 
Key-note speaker, Mark Depauw (UC Leuven)
“Splitting words in Greek letters and petitions. Quantitative research based
on Trismegistos”

10:00-10:30: 
Joanne Stolk (Ghent University/University of Oslo)
“The social meaning of scribal corrections in final versions of papyrus
letters”





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