The Oracular Conference: a Text-Linguistic Case Study in Late Egyptian

Citation:

Shisha-Halevy, A., 1981. The Oracular Conference: a Text-Linguistic Case Study in Late Egyptian. Folia Linguistica Historica , 2 , pp. 113–141.

Abstract:

The following discussion aims primarily at a tentative application of explicit text-linguistic analytic procedure to a special Late Egyptian corpus hitherto subjected but to superficial linguistic attention, viz. the Egyptian oracular texts (here I shall examine the Late Egyptian, not the Demotic evidence). However, a secondary goal of this paper is to make a contribution towards an aspect of a general theory of the dialogue: in viewing the texts which constitute the discussed corpus as embryonic dialogue-forms, I will attempt to explore some ideas for a schematic-typological approach to defining and characterizing these dialogues in general.

See also: Late Egyptian
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