Politics of Language

Foreign Nativeness and Identity in the Roman Empire

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Politics of Language

Foreign Nativeness and Identity in the Roman Empire

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Examining the identity and belonging of native and non-native speakers of Greek during the time of the High Roman Empire, Eleni Bozia closely studies grammarians, lexicographers and literary writers who used Attic Greek.

Bozia argues that transculturalism and translingualism created a new space for both the naturalised and native citizenry. In the act of imitating, emulating and recreating Attic Greek, speakers formed a socio-politically distinct and nuanced mode of expression in the social echelons of the Roman world.

Additionally, this is the first book to explore Greek and Latin texts from both a philological and a computational linguistics perspective. The result is a consideration of how imitation and innovation affect the social positioning of native and bilingual speakers. As such, this combined reading of data derived from classical studies in conjunction with computational linguistics, offers the context of how to serve a new interpretation of our understanding and appreciation of identity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Chapter 1: Enculturating Blood and Ancestry in the Greco-Roman WorldChapter 2: Grammar and Lexicography as ?ducational and ?thnic ?arkers
Chapter 3: Attic Oratory and its Imperial Revival: Quantifying Theory and Practice

Chapter 4: Experimental Results, Analysis, and Visualisation
Chapter 5: 'Ga??t?? ?? ???????e??': Greekness, Latinity, and Otherness in the World of the High Empire


Conclusion


Notes
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published 12 Dec 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9781350430273
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 29 bw illus
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Eleni Bozia

Eleni Bozia is Professor of Classics and Digital H…

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