Grob Documentary Arabic Private and Business Letters on Papyrus

Form and Function, Content and Context
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-11-024705-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 29, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beihefte

Arabic letters on papyrus challenge the modern reader. There are few to no diacritical dots to distinguish homographs, no systematic spacing between single words, and in the majority of cases a low degree of graphical structuring. However, contemporary readers usually read and understood these documents easily – probably because the recipient of a letter knew what to expect. The letters are formulaic, and their information packaging follows an algorithm typical for their time and content. Here formulaic letter writing means not only the reuse of the same formulae or topoi but expressing thoughts in a predictable linguistic way and order, both as a matter of readability and as one of adequacy and politeness. The main concern of this work is to discover these unwritten rules and norms behind Arabic letter writing on papyrus.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grob, Eva Mira

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Eva Mira Grob, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich and Universität Zürich?, Switzerland.