Writing and orthography in non-literary texts from Roman Britain : a sociolinguistic approach / Francesca Cotugno.

• The main aim of this book is an analysis of the orthographic variation observed in non-literary documents written on tablets in Roman Britain (i.e. Londinium-Bloomberg stylus tablets, the Carlisle and Vindolanda ink tablets, and curse tablets) taking into account any possible glimpse of language contact between the mother-tongue of the writers, conveniently hidden by the prestige of the Latin language and culture. These documents have been produced during the Roman control of Britannia, which lasted from 43 to about 410 CE, and was often characterised by a difficult relationship between the local population and the Romans. These non-literary documents show how these realities are fragmented in micro-entities, each of them carrying different linguistic, cultural, and historical backgrounds that we can summarize as micro-histories of Latinization. The topic of the ?micro-histories? has been tackled according to the analysis of the orthographic variation which arises as a brand-new heuristic perspective for the assessment of the possible cases of language contact. In Roman Britain such contacts occurred in different historical occasions and also according to different manners: There is the commercial hub from Londinium, before and after the destruction of Boudica; the auxiliaries from Carlisle and Vindolanda which were from the Celto-Germanic territories of the Roman Empire, the local population which eventually learned the cursing practice. 
• The Roman control of Britannia lasted from 43 to about 410 CE, a tumultuous occupation indeed, often characterised by a difficult relationship between the local population and the Romans. From these centuries of uproar and coexistence, we can collect the most emblematic case studies of phonological variation in non-literary texts written on tablets, mainly the writing tablets from Londinium-Bloomberg, Carlisle and Vindolanda and the curse tablets scattered in different sites from Britain. These documents show how these realities are fragmented in micro-entities, each of them carrying different linguistic, cultural, and historical backgrounds that we can summarize as micro-histories of Latinization. The thorough analysis of this significant assortment of non-literary documents, which includes stylus tablets, ink tablets and lead tablets, written in different scripts such as Old and New Roman Cursive and Captial writings, offers a first comprehensive account of the language variation available in these texts according to linguistic and palaeographical perspective. 

Ämnesord

Ortografi  (sao)

Latin  (sao)

Latinsk paleografi  (sao)

Historia  (sao)

Latin language  (LCSH)

Language and languages ¡ Orthography and spelling (¡ Orthography and spelling)  (LCSH)

History  (LCSH)

Paleography, Latin  (LCSH)

Britannia (romersk provins)  (sao)

Storbritannien  (sao)

-449 (Storbritannien)  (sao)

Klassifikation

PA (LCC)

477 (DDC)

Focm (kssb/8 (machine generated))