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Script Switching in Roman Egypt - Case Studies in Script Conventions, Domains, Shift, and Obsolescence from Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Demotic, and Old Coptic Manuscripts (Hardcover)
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Script Switching in Roman Egypt - Case Studies in Script Conventions, Domains, Shift, and Obsolescence from Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Demotic, and Old Coptic Manuscripts (Hardcover)
Series: Archiv fur Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete - Beihefte
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Script Switching in Roman Egypt studies the hieroglyphic, hieratic,
demotic, and Old Coptic manuscripts which evidence the conventions
governing script use, the domains of writing those scripts
inhabited, and the shift of scripts between those domains, to
elucidate the obsolescence of those scripts from their domains
during the Roman Period. Utilising macro-level frameworks from
sociolinguistics, the textual culture from four sites is
contextualised within the priestly communities of speech, script,
and practice that produced them. Utilising micro-level frameworks
from linguistics, both the scripts of the Egyptian writing system
written, and the way the orthographic methods fundamental to those
scripts changed, are typologised. This study also treats the way in
which morphographic and alphabetic orthographies are deciphered and
understood by the reading brain, and how changes in spelling over
time both resulted from and responded to dimensions of orthographic
depth. Through a cross-cultural consideration of script
obsolescence in Mesoamerica and Mesopotamia and by analogy to
language death in speech communities, a model of domain-bydomain
shift and obsolescence of the scripts of the Egyptian writing
system is proposed.
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