{"product_id":"multilingualism-in-the-graecoroman-worlds-9781107013865","title":"Multilingualism in the GraecoRoman Worlds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores the multilingual complexity of the Graeco-Roman worlds in antiquity and the medieval period. Employs the latest interdisciplinary approaches and contemporary multilingualism theory in order to examine the linguistic and visual clues left by those expressing multilingual identity, and how these compare across cultures and time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction: multiple languages, multiple identities Alex Mullen; 2. Language maintenance and language shift in the Mediterranean world during the Roman Empire James Clackson; 3. Why did Coptic fail where Aramaic succeeded? Linguistic development in Egypt and the Near East after the Arab conquest Arietta Papaconstantinou; 4. Language contact in the pre-Roman and Roman Iberian peninsula: direct and indirect evidence Oliver Simkin; 5. Complaints of the natives in a Greek dress: the Zenon Archive and the problem of Egyptian interference Trevor Evans; 6. Linguae sacrae in ancient and medieval sources: an anthropological approach to ritual language Alderik Blom; 7. Typologies of translation techniques in Greek and Latin David Langslow; 8. Greek in early medieval Ireland Pádraic Moran; 9. An habes linguam Latinam? Non tam bene sapio: views of multilingualism from the early medieval West Paul Russell; 10. Towards an archaeology of bilingualism: on the study of Greek-Coptic education in late antique Egypt Scott Bucking; 11. Neo-Punic and Latin inscriptions in Roman North Africa: function and display Andrew Wilson; 12. Cultures as languages and languages as cultures Robin Osborne.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768962416983,"sku":"9781107013865","price":99.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/multilingualism-in-the-graecoroman-worlds-9781107013865","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}