| Description |
1 online resource (x, 124 pages) |
| Series |
Robson classical lectures |
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Robson classical lectures.
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| Contents |
Introduction : Roman social imaginaries -- Belonging -- Cognition -- The ontology of the social -- Conclusion : making Romans |
| Summary |
"In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking about law, society, and empire. Drawing on innovative work in cognitive linguistics and anthropology, Roman Social Imaginaries considers how metaphor, metonymy, analogy, and ideation helped create the structures of thought that shaped the Roman Empire as a political construct. Beginning in early Roman history, Ando shows how the expansion of the empire into new territories led the Romans to develop and exploit Latin's extraordinary capacity for abstraction. In this way, laws and institutions invented for use in a single Mediterranean city-state could be deployed across a remarkably heterogeneous empire. Lucid, insightful, and innovative, the essays in Roman Social Imaginaries constitute some of today's most original thinking about the power of language in the ancient world."--Publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Latin language -- Rome
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Roman law -- Language.
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Cognitive grammar.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Cognitive grammar
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Language and languages -- Political aspects
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Latin language
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Roman law -- Language
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- Languages -- Political aspects
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Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115127
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| Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442622494 |
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1442622490 |
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