Negotiating Relationships: The Influence of Status and Personal Ties on Conventions and Language Variation in Late Babylonian Letters

Basic data for this talk

Type of talkscientific talk
Name der VortragendenSchmidl, Martina
Date of talk21/06/2022
Talk languageEnglish

Information about the event

Name of the eventVortragsreihe „With Kind Regards: Convention, Standards and Breaking the Rules in Letter-Writing“
Event period29/03/2022 - 22/11/2022
Event locationLeiden
Event websitehttps://emco.hcommons.org/events/event/with-kind-regards-convention-standards-and-breaking-the-rules-in-letter-writing/
Organised byERC-Projekt „Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (600-1000) (grant agreement Nº683194)

Abstract

Keywordsletters; conventions; language usage; variation; Historical Sociolinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Babylonia; Neo-Babylonian; Late Babylonian; Neo-Babylonian Empire; Achaemenid Empire; bureaucracy; officials; identity; performing identities; r

Speakers from the University of Münster

Schmidl, Martina
Professorship of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (Prof. Kleber)