Rethinking Orality I: Codification, Transcodification and Transmission of 'Cultural Messages' (Transcodification: Arts, Languages and Media, 1) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 3110713950 ISBN 13: 9783110713954

Verlag: De Gruyter, 2022

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The volume deals with the mechanisms of the oral communication in the ancient Greek culture. Considering the critical debate about orality, the analysis of the communicative system in a predominantly oral-aural ancient society implies a reassessment and a deep reconsideration of the traces which orality embedded in the texts transmitted to us. In particular, the focus is on the 'cultural message', a set of information which is processed and transmitted vertically as well as horizontally by a living being, so to be differently from a genetically encoded information, a culturally defined process. The survey intertwines different approaches: the methodologies of cognitivism, biology, ethology, to analyze the embrional processes of the cultural messages, and the tools of historical and literary analysis, to highlight the development of the cultural messages in the traditional knowledge, their codification, transmission, and evolutions in the dialectics between orality and writing. The reconstructed pattern of the mechanisms of cultural messages in a prevailing oral-aural system cast a light on a shadowy aspect of a sophisticated communication system that has long influenced European culture.

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Andrea Ercolani, ISMed, National Research Council, Italy; Laura Lulli, Department of Human Studies, University of L'Aquila, Italy.

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Considering the critical debate about orality, the volume deals with the mechanisms of the oral communication in the ancient Greek culture. It focuses on the 'cultural message' of the texts, considered under two perspectives: the methodologies of cognitivism, ethology, and linguistics, to analyze its embrional manifestations, and the tools of historical and literary analysis, to highlight the codification of the cultural message, and its evolutions in the changes of the communication system.

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• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3110713950
• ISBN 13: 9783110713954
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 249
• Herausgeber: Ercolani Andrea, Lulli Laura
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Walter de Gruyter GmbH; info@degruyter.com; ; Genthiner Straße 13; Berlin; Berlin; 10785; Deutschland