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Registers and Modes of Communication in the Ancient Near East: Getting the Message Across Gillan Davis-Kyle H. Keimer 1st edition
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Registers and Modes of Communication in the Ancient Near East: Getting the Message Across
Gillan Davis-Kyle H. Keimer
It is the quintessential nature of humans to communicate with each other. Good communications, bad communications, miscommunications, or no communications at all have driven everything from world events to the most mundane of interactions. At the broadest level, communication entails many registers and modes: verbal, iconographic, symbolic, oral, written, and performed. Relationships and identities ? real and fictive ? arise from communication, but how and why were they effected and how should they be understood? The chapters in this volume address some of the registers and modes of communication in the ancient Near East. Particular focuses are imperial and court communications between rulers and ruled, communications intended for a given community, and those between families and individuals. Topics cover a broad chronological period (3rd millennium BC to 1st millennium AD), and geographic range (Egypt to Israel and Mesopotamia) encapsulating the extraordinarily diverse plurality of human experience. This volume is deliberately interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, and its broad scope provides wide insights and a holistic understanding of communication applicable today. It is intended for both the scholar and readers with interests in ancient Near Eastern history and Biblical studies, communications (especially communications theory), and sociolinguistics.
304 pages, 8 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Tables, black and white
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 31, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138635302 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 232 |
| Dimensions | 162 × 243 × 22 mm · 532 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Davis, Gillan |
| Editor | Keimer, Kyle H. |
