Rethinking Orality I: Codification, Transcodification and Transmission of 'Cultural Messages'

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Rethinking Orality I

Codification, Transcodification and Transmission of 'Cultural Messages'

Edited by: Andrea Ercolani and Laura Lulli

Volume 1 in the series Transcodification: Arts, Languages and Media

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110751987

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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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction. Rethinking Orality: Some Reasons for a Research Andrea Ercolani and Laura Lulli Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
The Sources of Orality: Belief, Opinion, Acceptance Simone Gozzano Open Access Download PDF	1
Words, Gestures, Brains and Caves. Remarks on the Material Bases of Language Paolo Pecere Open Access Download PDF	19
Epigenetic Cell Memory Giovanna Simonetti Open Access Download PDF	37
Some Remarks on Orality and the Antinomy between Writing and Speaking in Western Linguistic Thought Federico Albano Leoni Open Access Download PDF	49
Beyond Orality: The Case of Sign Languages Olga Capirci and Chiara Bonsignori Open Access Download PDF	69
Epic and Ethology: The ‘Saddleback Model’. An Analogical Model for the Study of Archaic Greek Epic Andrea Ercolani Open Access Download PDF	89
To Speak Like a Bird: Beyond a Literary Topos Riccardo Palmisciano Open Access Download PDF	105
Epos and Paideia between Orality and Writing Lucio Del Corso Open Access Download PDF	119
Muses and Teachers: Poets’ Apprenticeship in the Greek Epic Tradition Livio Sbardella Open Access Download PDF	147
From Oral Theory to Neuroscience: a Dialogue on Communication Manuela Giordano Open Access Download PDF	167
Plato and the Charm of Epideictics in the Menexenus Mauro Tulli Open Access Download PDF	199
Erga Gynaikon: Female Supremacy in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women Dino De Sanctis Open Access Download PDF	215
Index of Discussed Passages Open Access Download PDF	233
Index of Notable Things Open Access Download PDF	237

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of Classical Studies, Greek Language and Literature, Linguistics, Cultural Studies and Media Theory
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 239
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 11
Keywords: Transcodification; Translation Studies; orality; ancient Greece; culture

eBook

Published: April 4, 2022
ISBN: 9783110751987

Hardcover

Published: April 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110713954