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Documentary Arabic Private and Business Letters on Papyrus : Form and Function, Content and Context / Eva Mira Grob.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beihefte ; 29Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (269 p.) : Num. figs. and tabsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110247046
  • 9783110247053
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 492.77 22/ger
LOC classification:
  • PN6135.A7
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- 1. Numbers, materials, and distribution over time -- 2. Formulary -- 3. Pragmatics -- 4. Language -- 5. Script and layout -- 6. Summary -- Backmatter
Dissertation note: Dissertation Universität Zürich 2009. Summary: 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.
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Dissertation Universität Zürich 2009.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- 1. Numbers, materials, and distribution over time -- 2. Formulary -- 3. Pragmatics -- 4. Language -- 5. Script and layout -- 6. Summary -- Backmatter

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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