Toward a Historical Sociolinguistic Poetics of Medieval Greek (Byzantioc. Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization) (English and German Edition) (English and Greek Edition)

This volume collects some of the papers presented at two international conferences, held in Vienna, on historical sociolinguistics and late Byzantine historiography. How can historical sociolinguistic analyses of Medieval Greek aid the interpretation of Medieval Greek texts? This is the main question that the papers collected in this volume aim to address. The term "historical sociolinguistics" (HSL), a discipline that combines linguistic, social, historical, and philological sciences, suggests that a language cannot be studied without its social dimension. Similarly, the study of a language in its social dimension is nothing else than the study of the communication which takes place between members of a given speech community by the means of written texts. These are seen as sets of shared "signs" used by authors to communicate to their audiences. This volume is divided into two distinct parts. In the first, Cuomo's and Bentein's papers aim to offer an overview on the discipline and examples of applied HSL. Valente's, Bianconi's, and Pérez-Martín's papers will then show how to study the "context of production and reception" of Byzantine texts. These are followed by Horrocks' study on some features of Atticized Medieval Greek. In the second part, the contributions by Telelis, Odorico, and Manolova focus on the context of reception of the texts by Georgios Pachymeres, Theodoros Pediasimos, and Nikephoros Gregoras respectively This volume collects some of the papers presented at two international conferences, held in Vienna, on historical sociolinguistics and late Byzantine historiography. How can historical sociolinguistic analyses of Medieval Greek aid the interpretation of Medieval Greek texts? This is the main question that the papers collected in this volume aim to address. The term "historical sociolinguistics" (HSL), a discipline that combines linguistic, social, historical, and philological sciences, suggests that a language cannot be studied without its social dimension. Similarly, the study of a language in its social dimension is nothing else than the study of the communication which takes place between members of a given speech community by the means of written texts. These are seen as sets of shared "signs" used by authors to communicate to their audiences. This volume is divided into two distinct parts. In the first, Cuomo's and Bentein's papers aim to offer an overview on the discipline and examples of applied HSL. Valente's, Bianconi's, and Pérez-Martín's papers will then show how to study the "context of production and reception" of Byzantine texts. These are followed by Horrocks' study on some features of Atticized Medieval Greek. In the second part, the contributions by Telelis, Odorico, and Manolova focus on the context of reception of the texts by Georgios Pachymeres, Theodoros Pediasimos, and Nikephoros Gregoras respectively This volume collects some of the papers presented at two international conferences, held in Vienna, on historical sociolinguistics and late Byzantine historiography.0How can historical sociolinguistic analyses of Medieval Greek aid the interpretation of Medieval Greek texts? This is the main question that the papers collected in this volume aim to address. The term?historical sociolinguistics? (HSL), a discipline that combines linguistic, social, historical, and philological sciences, suggests that a language cannot be studied without its social dimension. Similarly, the study of a language in its social dimension is nothing else than the study of the communication which takes place between members of a given speech community by the means of written texts. These are seen as sets of shared?signs? used by authors to communicate to their audiences.0This volume is divided into two distinct parts. In the first, Cuomo's and Bentein?s papers aim to offer an overview on the discipline and examples of applied HSL. Valente?s, Bianconi?s, and Pérez-Martín?s papers will then show how to study the?context of production and reception? of Byzantine texts. These are followed by Horrocks? study on some features of Atticized Medieval Greek. In the second part, the contributions by Telelis, Odorico, and Manolova focus on the context of reception of the texts by Georgios Pachymeres, Theodoros Pediasimos, and Nikephoros Gregoras respectively How can historical sociolinguistic analyses of Medieval Greek aid in the interpretation of Medieval Greek texts? This is the main question addressed by the papers collected in this volume. Historical sociolinguistics (HSL) is a discipline that combines linguistic, social, historical, and philological sciences, and suggests that a language cannot be studied apart from its social dimension. Similarly, the study of a language in its social dimension is nothing else than the study of communication between members of a given speech community by the means of written texts, the shared “signs” used by authors to communicate with their audiences.This volume is divided into two parts. In the first, Cuomo’s and Bentein’s papers aim to offer an overview of the discipline and examples of applied HSL. Valente’s, Bianconi’s, and Pérez-Martín’s papers show how the context of production and reception of Byzantine texts should be studied. These are followed by Horrocks’ study on some features of Atticized Medieval Greek. In the second part, the contributions by Telelis, Odorico, and Manolova focus on the context of reception of texts by Georgios Pachymeres, Theodoros Pediasimos, and Nikephoros Gregoras respectively TABLE OF CONTENTS Vorwort vii Andrea Massimo Cuomo, Historical Sociolinguistics – Pragmatics and Semiotics, and the Study of Medieval Greek Literature 1 Klaas Bentein, Towards a Socio-Historical Analysis of Ancient Greek? Some Problems and Prospects 35 Stefano Valente, Old and New Lexica in Palaeologan Byzantium 45 Daniele Bianconi, La lettura dei testi antichi tra didattica ed erudizione: Qualche esempio d’età paleologa 57 Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Aristides’ Panathenaikos as a Byzantine Schoolbook: Nikephoros Gregoras’ Notes on Ms. Escorial Φ.Ι.18 85 Geoffrey Horrocks, Georgios Akropolitis: Theory and Practice in the Language of Later Byzantine Historiography 109 Ioannis Telelis, Tεχνικὸς διδάσκαλος: Georgios Pachymeres as Paraphrast of Aristotelian Meteorology 119 Divna Manolova, The Student Becomes the Teacher: Nikephoros Gregoras’ Hortatory Letter Concerning Astronomy 143 Paolo Odorico, Identité et craintes. Théodore Pédiasimos à Serrès au XIVe siècle 161 Abstracts 175 Bibliography 181 General Index 221 Index of Manuscripts 230