Semantic Traces Of Social Interaction From Antiquity To Early Modern Times

Author : Seraina Plotke
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527509870

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Semantic Traces of Social Interaction from Antiquity to Early Modern Times by Seraina Plotke Pdf

There are many methods that use historical semantic analysis as the key to unlocking an understanding of past epochs, concepts in the humanities, and socio-historical events, including: conceptual history, lexicometry and socio-historical discourse semantics. As diverse as these approaches are, stemming as they do from varying academic traditions, together they have proven that language is more than just a passive medium to transport meaning. Words and their meanings on the one hand, and the changes in those meanings on the other, influence socio-cultural structures, orders of knowledge, ideologies, and mentalities. In turn, socio-political achievements, ideological orientation, novel ways of thinking, and modifications of scientific knowledge and cultural practices inform and change the way words are used, leading to neologisms and semantic shifts as well as to expanded or narrowed meanings. Tracing the changes in the meaning of conversatio and its modern language derivatives, this book illustrates the productivity of historical semantic analysis for cultural studies.

Author : Tanja Pommerening,Walter Bisang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110538779

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Classification from Antiquity to Modern Times by Tanja Pommerening,Walter Bisang Pdf

The volume presents phenomena of classification and categorisation in ancient and modern cultures and provides an overview of how cultural practices and cognitive systems interact when individuals or larger groups conceptually organize their world. Scientists of antiquity studies, anthropologists, linguists etc. will find methods to reconstruct early concepts of men and nature from a synchronic and diachronic comparative perspective.

Author : Peter Keegan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317591276

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Graffiti in Antiquity by Peter Keegan Pdf

Ancient graffiti - hundreds of thousands of informal, ephemeral texts spanning millennia - offer a patchwork of fragmentary conversations in a variety of languages spread across the Mediterranean world. Cut, painted, inked or traced in charcoal, the surviving graffiti present a layer of lived experience in the ancient world unavailable from other sources. Graffiti in Antiquity reveals how and why the inhabitants of Greece and Rome - men and women and free and enslaved - formulated written and visual messages about themselves and the world around them as graffiti. The sources - drawn from 800 BCE to 600 CE - are examined both within their individual historical, cultural and archaeological contexts and thematically, allowing for an exploration of social identity in the urban society of the ancient world. An analysis of one of the most lively and engaged forms of personal communication and protest, Graffiti in Antiquity introduces a new way of reading sociocultural relationships among ordinary people living in the ancient world.

Author : Andrea Lombardinilo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781349960842

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The Lure of Communication by Andrea Lombardinilo Pdf

Author : Catharina Lis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351887984

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The Idea of Work in Europe from Antiquity to Modern Times by Catharina Lis Pdf

This volume takes a fresh and innovative approach to the history of ideas of work, concerning perceptions, attitudes, cultures and representations of work throughout Antiquity and the medieval and early modern periods. Focusing on developments in Europe, the contributors approach the subject from a variety of angles, considering aspects of work as described in literature, visual culture, and as perceived in economic theory. As well as external views of workers the volume also looks at the meaning of work for the self-perception of various social groups, including labourers, artisans, merchants, and noblemen, and the effects of this on their self-esteem and social identity. Taking a broad chronological approach to the subject provides readers with a cutting-edge overview of research into the varying attitudes to work and its place in pre-industrial society.

Author : Claudia Maienborn,Klaus von Heusinger,Paul Portner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 989 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Semantics
ISBN : 9783110184709

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Semantics by Claudia Maienborn,Klaus von Heusinger,Paul Portner Pdf

Author : Brigitte Nerlich,David D. Clarke
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027245670

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Language, Action, and Context by Brigitte Nerlich,David D. Clarke Pdf

The roots of pragmatics reach back to Antiquity, especially to rhetoric as one of the three liberal arts. However, until the end of the 18th century proto-pragmatic insights tended to be consigned to the pragmatic, that is rhetoric, wastepaper basket and thus excluded from serious philosophical consideration.It can be said that pragmatics was conceived between 1780 and 1830 in Britain, but also in Germany and in France in post-Lockian and post-Kantian philosophies of language. These early 'conceptions' of pragmatics are described in the first part of the book.The second part of the book looks at pragmatic insights made between 1830 and 1880, when they were once more relegated to the philosophical and linguistic underground. The main stage was then occupied by a fact-hunting historical comparative linguistics on the one hand and a newly spiritualised philosophy on the other.In the last part the period between 1880 and 1930 is presented, when pragmatic insights flourished and were sought after systematically. This was due in part to a new upsurge in empiricism, positivism and later behaviourism in philosophy, linguistics and psychology. Between 1780 and 1930 philosophers, psychologists, sociologists and linguists came to see that language could only be studied in the context of dialogue, in the context of human life and finally as being a kind of human action itself.

Author : Čermák, František
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788024643588

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Lexical and Semantic Aspects of Proverbs by Čermák, František Pdf

The field of paremiology is traditionally an interdisciplinary one starting with folklore, paremiology, language, literature, history, and other fields, their mutual influence being a peculiar and highly valued feature for all. This book is linguistic in nature, offering a number of aspects of contemporary languages and their proverbs studied, though mostly on lexical, semantic and pragmatic aspects, based on language corpora findings, subsequently leading to proverb minima. Apart from selected proverb data excerpted from tens of languages, there is an effort to arrive at a system of proverbs having a wider orientation based on the goal set to map proverbs in a language in a systematic and reliable way, showing proverbs and their use in large, multimilion language corpora. Next to its academic goals covering proverb theory of use and system, the book may be used by lexicocographers, monolingual and comparative, and language teachers in their textbook compilation.

Author : Jefferson D. Pooley,Eric W. Rothenbuhler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 2323 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118290736

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The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy, 4 Volume Set by Jefferson D. Pooley,Eric W. Rothenbuhler Pdf

The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy is the definitive single-source reference work on the subject, with state-of-the-art and in-depth scholarly reflection on key issues from leading international experts. It is available both online and in print. A state-of-the-art and in-depth scholarly reflection on the key issues raised by communication, covering the history, systematics, and practical potential of communication theory Articles by leading experts offer an unprecedented level of accuracy and balance Provides comprehensive, clear entries which are both cross-national and cross-disciplinary in nature The Encyclopedia presents a truly international perspective with authors and positions representing not just Europe and North America, but also Latin America and Asia Published both online and in print Part of The Wiley Blackwell-ICA International Encyclopedias of Communication series, published in conjunction with the International Communication Association. Online version available at Wiley Online Library

Author : Cornelia Müller,Alan Cienki,Ellen Fricke,Silva Ladewig,David McNeill,Sedinha Tessendorf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110261318

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Body - Language - Communication by Cornelia Müller,Alan Cienki,Ellen Fricke,Silva Ladewig,David McNeill,Sedinha Tessendorf Pdf

Volume I of the handbook presents contemporary, multidisciplinary, historical, theoretical, and methodological aspects of how body movements relate to language. It documents how leading scholars from differenct disciplinary backgrounds conceptualize and analyze this complex relationship. Five chapters and a total of 72 articles, present current and past approaches, including multidisciplinary methods of analysis. The chapters cover: I. How the body relates to language and communication: Outlining the subject matter, II. Perspectives from different disciplines, III. Historical dimensions, IV. Contemporary approaches, V. Methods. Authors include: Michael Arbib, Janet Bavelas, Marino Bonaiuto, Paul Bouissac, Judee Burgoon, Martha Davis, Susan Duncan, Konrad Ehlich, Nick Enfield, Pierre Feyereisen, Raymond W. Gibbs, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Uri Hadar, Adam Kendon, Antja Kennedy, David McNeill, Lorenza Mondada, Fernando Poyatos, Klaus Scherer, Margret Selting, Jürgen Streeck, Sherman Wilcox, Jeffrey Wollock, Jordan Zlatev.

Author : John Gallagher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192574947

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Learning Languages in Early Modern England by John Gallagher Pdf

In 1578, the Anglo-Italian author, translator, and teacher John Florio wrote that English was 'a language that wyl do you good in England, but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing'. Learning Languages in Early Modern England is the first major study of how English-speakers learnt a variety of continental vernacular languages in the period between 1480 and 1720. English was practically unknown outside of England, which meant that the English who wanted to travel and trade with the wider world in this period had to become language-learners. Using a wide range of printed and manuscript sources, from multilingual conversation manuals to travellers' diaries and letters where languages mix and mingle, Learning Languages explores how early modern English-speakers learned and used foreign languages, and asks what it meant to be competent in another language in the past. Beginning with language lessons in early modern England, it offers a new perspective on England's 'educational revolution'. John Gallagher looks for the first time at the whole corpus of conversation manuals written for English language-learners, and uses these texts to pose groundbreaking arguments about reading, orality, and language in the period. He also reconstructs the practices of language-learning and multilingual communication which underlay early modern travel. Learning Languages offers a new and innovative study of a set of practices and experiences which were crucial to England's encounter with the wider world, and to the fashioning of English linguistic and cultural identities at home. Interdisciplinary in its approaches and broad in its chronological and thematic scope, this volume places language-learning and multilingualism at the heart of early modern British and European history.

Author : Ovanes Akopyan,David Rosenthal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003801658

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Disaster in the Early Modern World by Ovanes Akopyan,David Rosenthal Pdf

How did early modern societies think about disasters, such as earthquakes or floods? How did they represent disaster, and how did they intervene to mitigate its destructive effects? This collection showcases the breadth of new work on the period ca. 1300-1750. Covering topics that range from new thinking about risk and securitisation to the protection of dikes from shipworm, and with a geography that extends from Europe to Spanish America, the volume places early modern disaster studies squarely at the intersection of intellectual, cultural and socio-economic history. This period witnessed fresh speculation on nature, the diffusion of disaster narratives and imagery and unprecedented attempts to control the physical world. The book will be essential to specialists and students of environmental history and disaster, as well as general readers who seek to discover how pre-industrial societies addressed some of the same foundational issues we grapple with today.

Author : Heather Hunter-Crawley,Erica O'Brien
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781315519838

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The Multi-Sensory Image from Antiquity to the Renaissance by Heather Hunter-Crawley,Erica O'Brien Pdf

This volume responds to calls in visual and material cultural studies to move beyond the visual and to explore the multi-sensory impact of the image, across a wide range of cultural and historical contexts. What does it mean to practise art history after the material and sensory turns? What is an image, if not a purely visual phenomenon, and how does it prompt non-visual sensory experiences? The multi-sensoriality of the image was a less challenging concept before the ocularcentric modern age, and so this volume brings together a global array of scholars from multiple disciplines to ask these questions of imagery in premodern or non-western contexts, ranging from Minoan palace frescoes, to Roman statues, early church sermons, tombs of Byzantine saints, museum displays of Islamic artefacts of scent, medieval depictions of the voice, and Stuart court masques. Each chapter presents a means of appreciating images beyond the visual, demonstrating the new information and understanding that consequently can be gleaned from their material. As a collection, these chapters offer the student and scholar of art history and visual culture an array of exciting new approaches that can be applied to appreciate the multi-sensoriality of images in any context, as well as prompts for reflection on future directions in the study of imagery. The Multi-Sensory Image thus illustrates that it is not only possible to explore the non-visual impact of images, but imperative.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004526525

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Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity by Anonim Pdf

Documents such as papyri and inscriptions are essential to our knowledge of ancient history in a broad sense. This volume turns the attention to the texts themselves, and explores in an interdisciplinary way how people communicated with each other in antiquity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004515116

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New Approaches to Textual and Image Analysis in Early Jewish and Christian Studies by Anonim Pdf

This volume explores Biblical Studies and its relationship to the Digital Humanities in all its complexity, focusing on new approaches to texts and images.