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This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation at...
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oapen-20.500.12657-766342023-10-10T02:38:04Z The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān Kootstra, Fokelien Dadanitic inscriptions Western Arabia al-ʿUlā bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFL Palaeography (history of writing) This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them. It is the first work to perform a systematic study of the linguistic variation of the Dadanitic inscriptions. It combines a thorough description of the language of the inscriptions with a statistical analysis of the distribution of variation across different textual genres and manners of inscribing. By considering correlations between language-internal and extralinguistic features this analysis aims to take a more holistic approach to the epigraphic object. Through this approach an image of a rich writing culture emerges, in which we can see innovation as well as the deliberate use of archaic linguistic features in more formal text types. 2023-10-09T12:26:33Z 2023-10-09T12:26:33Z 2022 book ONIX_20231009_9789004512634_29 9789004512634 9789004512627 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76634 eng application/pdf n/a 9789004512634.pdf https://brill.com/display/title/62065 Brill 10.1163/9789004512634 10.1163/9789004512634 af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 da087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025 9789004512634 9789004512627 Dutch Research Council (NWO) PGW-14-43 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research open access |
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This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them. It is the first work to perform a systematic study of the linguistic variation of the Dadanitic inscriptions. It combines a thorough description of the language of the inscriptions with a statistical analysis of the distribution of variation across different textual genres and manners of inscribing. By considering correlations between language-internal and extralinguistic features this analysis aims to take a more holistic approach to the epigraphic object. Through this approach an image of a rich writing culture emerges, in which we can see innovation as well as the deliberate use of archaic linguistic features in more formal text types. |
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