The language of Roman letters: bilingual Roman epistolography from Cicero to Fronto
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 3406918
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108647649
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- ISBN
- 9781108480161
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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https://csrl.classics.cam.ac.uk/index.php
- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 333-page, interdisciplinary book is the product of six years research, combining sociolinguistic and historical approaches to explore the elite bilingualism of the Roman Republic and Empire. Supported by an open access database, it offers the first systematic, empirically-based analysis of Greek in thousands of letters by Cicero, Pliny, Marcus Aurelius and Fronto and in the Lives of Suetonius. Comparative analysis of Roman and modern code-switching is used to contribute to the debate on how bilingual strategies in letters evolve and how they relate to oral and literary language, the negotiation of political and social relationships and construction of identities.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The Open-access database that supports this book is available at https://csrl.classics.cam.ac.uk/index.php
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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