Writing and Orthography in Non-Literary Texts from Roman Britain

A Sociolinguistic Approach

By (author) Francesca Cotugno

Book cover: Writing and Orthography in Non-Literary Texts from Roman Britain

Extent: 172 pages

Publisher: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag

Subjects: Classical Studies, Language & Linguistics

Series: LautSchriftSprache - ScriptandSound

Series volume number: 4.0

Language: English

(Hardback) (Published)

(December 2022)

ISBN: 9783752006810

Price: $89.00

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(PDF) (Published)

(December 2022)

ISBN: 9783752002331

Price: $74.00

The analysis of orthographic variation and the writing habit presented in this book represented a heuristic tool for the study of the sociolinguistic scenario of Roman Britain, sketching the different micro-histories of Latinization according to a new, ground-breaking, perspective. As a matter of fact, the assessment of the different orthographic variants may be revealing of the phenomena of language contact and interference; orthographic misspellings and idiosyncratic variants, which also varies according to the text type, writing materials, and writers, allows the sketch for different micro-histories of Latinization


The analysis of orthographic variation and the writing habit presented in this book represented a heuristic tool for the study of the sociolinguistic scenario of Roman Britain, sketching the different micro-histories of Latinization according to a new, ground-breaking, perspective. As a matter of fact, the assessment of the different orthographic variants may be revealing of the phenomena of language contact and interference; orthographic misspellings and idiosyncratic variants, which also varies according to the text type, writing materials, and writers, allows the sketch for different micro-histories of Latinization.

  • By (author) Francesca Cotugno