Bilingualism in Ancient Society: Language Contact and the Written Text
J. N. Adams, Mark Janse, and Simon Swain
Abstract
Focusing on written texts, this book provides an introduction to the evidence of bilingualism in the ancient Mediterranean world. Language contact intruded into virtually every aspect of ancient life, including literature, philosophy, law, medicine, provincial administration, army, magic and trade, and topics which have been fashionable in sociolinguistics for some time have now begun to attract the attention of scholars working in Graeco-Roman studies. The fifteen chapters in this collection cover theoretical and methodological issues and key aspects of the contact between Latin and Greek and ... More
Focusing on written texts, this book provides an introduction to the evidence of bilingualism in the ancient Mediterranean world. Language contact intruded into virtually every aspect of ancient life, including literature, philosophy, law, medicine, provincial administration, army, magic and trade, and topics which have been fashionable in sociolinguistics for some time have now begun to attract the attention of scholars working in Graeco-Roman studies. The fifteen chapters in this collection cover theoretical and methodological issues and key aspects of the contact between Latin and Greek and among Latin, Greek, and other languages.
Keywords:
bilingualism,
language contact,
sociolinguistics,
Mediterranean,
Graeco-Roman studies,
Latin,
Greek
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2002 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199245062 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2010 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199245062.001.0001 |
Authors
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J. N. Adams, editor
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
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Mark Janse, editor
Editor of Bibliographie Linguistique, Associate Professor of Greek and General Linguistics at Ghent University, and a Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam
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Simon Swain, editor
Professor of Classics, University of Warwick
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