Register variation and asymmetric communication in Ancient Egypt (B03)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages ; Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies ; Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
• Term: since 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 416591334

B03 investigates the emergence and development of register knowledge in Ancient Egyptian (Afro-Asiatic; c. 3200 BC - 1200 AD). Based on results from Phase I, the project now focuses on texts deriving from communicative situations characterized by social asymmetry while maintaining the research approach of the two complementary perspectives of corpus-based and single-text-based analysis. The focus is on administrative, educational, and religious texts as well as complex text-image compositions. Based on the Field-Tenor-Mode model of Systemic Functional Linguistics and insights from multimodality research, the project aims to develop a model of register variation in Ancient Egypt.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1412: Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation
• Applicant Institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Frank Kammerzell, until 12/2023; Professorin Dr. Silvia Kutscher; Dr. Dina Serova