Registers and Modes of Communication in the Ancient Near East

Name: Registers and Modes of Communication in the Ancient Near East | Getting the Message Across
Brand: Routledge
Price: 56.49 EUR
Availability: OnlineOnly

Getting the Message Across

Kyle H. Keimer Gillan Davis(Herausgeber*in)

Routledge (Verlag)

Erschienen am 7. September 2017

252 Seiten

E-Book

PDF mit Adobe-DRM

Systemvoraussetzungen

978-1-351-79704-7 (ISBN)

56,49 €inkl. 7% MwSt.

Systemvoraussetzungen

für PDF mit Adobe-DRM

E-Book Einzellizenz

Als Download verfügbar

Beschreibung

It is the quintessential nature of humans to communicate with each other. Good communications, bad communications, miscommunications, or no communications at all have driven everything from world events to the most mundane of interactions. At the broadest level, communication entails many registers and modes: verbal, iconographic, symbolic, oral, written, and performed. Relationships and identities - real and fictive - arise from communication, but how and why were they effected and how should they be understood? The chapters in this volume address some of the registers and modes of communication in the ancient Near East. Particular focuses are imperial and court communications between rulers and ruled, communications intended for a given community, and those between families and individuals. Topics cover a broad chronological period (3rd millennium BC to 1st millennium AD), and geographic range (Egypt to Israel and Mesopotamia) encapsulating the extraordinarily diverse plurality of human experience. This volume is deliberately interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, and its broad scope provides wide insights and a holistic understanding of communication applicable today. It is intended for both the scholar and readers with interests in ancient Near Eastern history and Biblical studies, communications (especially communications theory), and sociolinguistics.

Rezensionen / Stimmen

Encompassing a wide spectrum of civilizations and periods, from the Early Bronze Age to the Roman imperial period, and ranging in its coverage from Mesopotamia to Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, this volume provides many penetrating insights into the ways Near Eastern people communicated with one another, on personal, state, and international levels. Through its multi-disciplinary approach and use of modern research methods which enhance our understanding of both verbal and written interactions between the ancient Near Eastern peoples, it will be of great benefit to students and scholars engaged in any field of Near Eastern studies, from the Bronze Age through the biblical and Classical eras.

- Professor Trevor Bryce, University of Queensland, Australia

Registers and Modes of Communication in the Ancient Near East

Beschreibung

Rezensionen / Stimmen

Weitere Details

Weitere Ausgaben

Personen

Inhalt

Systemvoraussetzungen