An innovative combination of classics, sociology and computational linguistics. A sound exploration of the role of language in the creation and maintenance of identities in the High Roman Empire. Delightfully written and accessible to all readerships.

- Luis Unceta Gómez, Senior Lecturer in Latin Philology, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain,

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.
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AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Enculturating Blood and Ancestry in the Greco-Roman WorldChapter 2: Grammar and Lexicography as ?ducational and ?thnic ?arkersChapter 3: Attic Oratory and its Imperial Revival: Quantifying Theory and PracticeChapter 4: Experimental Results, Analysis, and VisualisationChapter 5: ‘Ga??t?? ?? ???????e??’: Greekness, Latinity, and Otherness in the World of the High EmpireConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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An examination of the language used by native and non-native writers of Greek in the Roman Empire, while considering language as a means of establishing identity and social standing.
First book to look at Greek and Latin text using a computational linguistics perspective

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ISBN
9781350430273
Publisert
2024-12-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Biographical note

Eleni Bozia is Professor of Classics and Digital Humanities at the University of Florida, USA.