Companion to the Ancient Greek Language

A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language gives a comprehensive account of the language of Ancient Greek civilization in a single volume with contributions from leading international scholars. This collection of 36 original essays covers the historical, geographical, sociolinguistic, and literary perspectives of the language.

About the author

Egbert J. Bakker is Professor of Classics at Yale University. He is the author of Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (1997) and Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Performance in Homeric Poetics (2005) and the co-editor with A. Kahane of Written Voices, Spoken Signs: Tradition, Performance, and Epic Text (1997). He has published widely on various aspects of the Greek language, in particular, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and speaking versus writing.

Summary

A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language gives a comprehensive account of the language of Ancient Greek civilization in a single volume with contributions from leading international scholars. This collection of 36 original essays covers the historical, geographical, sociolinguistic, and literary perspectives of the language.

Product details

• Assisted by: Egber J Bakker (Editor), Egbert J Bakker (Editor), Egbert J Bakker (Editor), Bakker Egbert J. (Editor), Egbert J. Bakker (Editor)
• Authors: Egbert J. (Yale University Bakker, Egbert J Bakker, Ej Bakker, Egbert J. Bakker
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 27.12.2013
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Education and learning > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9781118782910
• ISBN: 978-1-118-78291-0
• Pages: 704
• Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World; Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Subjects: Altgriechisch, Antike, Fremdsprachen, Foreign languages, Classical Studies, Humanistische Studien, Antike u. klassische Literatur, Sonstige Fremdsprachen, Ancient & Classical Literature, Other Languages