Project Details
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
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
Applicant Institution
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Project Heads
Professor Dr. Frank Kammerzell, until 12/2023; Professorin Dr. Silvia Kutscher; Dr. Dina Serova