Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean

The subject of this study is the language of commerce and diplomacy during the period from 1500 BCE to 1500 CE. Based on texts of chancery provenance, its aim is the identification of a linguistic sub-system that effected and informed the major channel of international relations. The standard procedures of contact and exchange generated a format that facilitated inter-lingual transfer of concepts and terms. Lingua Franca refers to the several natural languages that served as vehicle in the transfer, but also to the format itself.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Orbits; Chapter 2 Chancery Practice; Chapter 3 Lingua Franca;

About the author

J.E. Wansbrough

Summary

Covers the language of commerce and diplomacy during the period from 1500 BCE to 1500 CE. Aims at the identification of a linguistic sub-system that effected and informed the major channel of international relations.

Report

'The science has been brought to a high degree of exactitude by Western European historians and palaeographers' - Mustansir Mir

Product details

• Authors: J E Wansborough, J. E. Wansborough, Wansborough J. E.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.08.2016
• EAN: 9781138979864
• ISBN: 978-1-138-97986-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, Usage & grammar guides, Usage and grammar guides, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling & Vocabulary