Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 836 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511482960
Content:
Since the 1980s, bilingualism has become one of the main themes of sociolinguistics - but there are as yet few large-scale treatments of the subject specific to the ancient world. This book is the first work to deal systematically with bilingualism during a period of antiquity (the Roman period, down to about the fourth century AD) in the light of sociolinguistic discussions of bilingual issues. The general theme of the work is the nature of the contact between Latin and numerous other languages spoken in the Roman world. Among the many issues discussed three are prominent: code-switching (the practice of switching between two languages in the course of a single utterance) and its motivation, language contact as a cause of change in one or both of the languages in contact, and the part played by language choice and language switching in the establishment of personal and group identities
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
,
1. Introduction -- I. Introductory remarks; some issues in the study of bilingualism -- II. Bilingualism -- III. Elite and sub-elite bilingualism: anecdotal evidence and its shortcomings -- IV. Romans, Greeks and others as language learners -- V. Code-switching, interference and borrowing -- VI. A further note on loan-words -- VII. Sources of information -- VIII. The authorship of inscriptions -- IX. Pidgins and 'reduced' languages -- X. Some concluding remarks. App. Attitudes to the Greek accent in Latin -- 2. Languages in Contact with Latin -- I. Introduction -- II. Oscan, Umbrian, Venetic, Messapic -- III. Etruscan -- IV. Celtic (Gaulish) -- V. Punic -- VI. Libyan, Berber -- VII. Aramaic.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521817714
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521731515
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521817714
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511482960
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
