Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean - Multilingualism Multiple Identities in Iron Age Roman Periods

The interactions and multiple identities of indigenous and Mediterranean communities in Southern Gaul come to life through sociolinguistics and archaeology.

List of contents

Part I. Multilingualism and Multiple Identities: Interdisciplinary Methodologies: 1. Multiple voices; 2. Language contact and community dynamics; 3. Bilingual texts and community dynamics; 4. Scripts as indicators of contact; 5. Names as indicators of contact; Part II. Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in Southern Gaul: 6. Gallia in Graeciam translata? Investigating Gaulish-Greek linguistic contacts; 7. 'La Celtique méditerranéenne'? Investigating the influence of the Mediterranean koine; 8. 'D'où rayonna en Occident la civilisation'? Investigating the loci of cultural change; 9. Being Greek, becoming Roman, staying Celtic? Ethnolinguistic vitality from the Augustan period; 10. Conclusions; Appendices.

About the author

Alex Mullen is a postdoctoral research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, having previously been Lumley Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics. Her main research interests lie in the application of contemporary bi- and multilingualism theory to the ancient world and the integration of linguistics and archaeology. She has co-edited (with Patrick James) Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds (Cambridge, 2012).

Product details

• Authors: Alex Mullen, Alex (All Souls College Mullen, Mullen Alex
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2019
• EAN: 9781108718424
• ISBN: 978-1-108-71842-4
• No. of pages: 475
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; France, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Sociolinguistics, Ancient World, Ancient History, Historical & comparative linguistics, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Historical and comparative linguistics