Literary Form and the "Tale of the Eloquent Peasant"

Parkinson, R. B.

doi:10.2307/3822070

The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

1992

DOI: 10.2307/3822070

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Literary Form and the "Tale of the Eloquent Peasant"

R. B. Parkinson¹

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“…Christopher J. Eyre has provided an interesting account of the performative aspects of the tale, especially in relation to how different intonations in its reading would have influenced its reception by a listening audience (Eyre, 2000). The formal literary structure(s) of the text are examined in (Parkinson, 1992).…”

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Using the Concepts of Hermeneutical Injustice and Ideology to Explain the Stability of Ancient Egypt During the Middle Kingdom

Nabolsy¹

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J Historical Sociology

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This paper argues that the relative stability of ancient Egyptian society during the Middle Kingdom (c.2055-1650 BC) can in part be explained by referring to the phenomenon of hermeneutical injustice, i.e., the manner in which imbalances in socioeconomic power are causally correlated with imbalances in the conceptual scheme through which people attempt to interpret their social reality and assert their interests in light of their interpretations. The court literature of the Middle Kingdom is analyzed using the concepts of hermeneutical injustice and ideology. It is argued that while it is true that there was room for maneuver and for internal critique, the efficacy of internal critique was hindered by the structure of the intellectual discourse of Middle Kingdom Egypt. This intellectual discourse was suitable for the interpretation of social reality in a way that allowed the elites to assert their interests, but it was not suitable for the interpretation of social reality in a way that accorded with the interests of the exploited peasantry. 1 | INTRODUCTION One of the factors that can contribute to explaining the relative stability of ancient Egyptian society during the Middle Kingdom is the manner in which the conceptual tools that were available for the interpretation of social reality in ancient Egyptian society during the Middle Kingdom were structurally biased in a way that accorded with the interests of the ruling elite. While the focus of this paper is on the ideational factors which can contribute to explaining the relative stability of ancient Egyptian society during the Middle Kingdom, one should not deny that there are other factors that can be invoked to explain this relative stability. Geographical factors such as the "caging effect" that the Nile basin had on the population (Manning, 2013), and the relative security afforded by the deserts in the east and the west of the Nile basin (Hill, Jones, & Morales, 2013, p. 16

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On the pragmatics of subjectification: The grammaticalization of verbless allative futures (with a case study in Ancient Egyptian)

Grossman

Polis

2014

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia

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"The inventory of extant synchronic types are but the inventory of available grammaticalization pathways that gave rise to them. Consequently, the constraints on syntactic universals are in essence constraints on the developmental process of grammaticalization, rather than on the resulting synchronic structures" Talmy Givón (2001: 205)."All explanations for linguistic phenomena, both universal and language-specific, must necessarily have a diachronic dimension, since all linguistic phenomena have histories which determine their present conventionalized state. With respect to language universals [...], an explanation is not valid unless it can be demonstrated that the explanatory principle is actually at work in the mechanism of change that brings about the cross-linguistic pattern.Taking the role of diachrony one step further, one could argue that since there are so few absolute universals, identifying the mechanisms of change behind cross-linguistic patterns will lead us closer to an understanding of the factors that produce cross-linguistic patterns, and these factors, I would maintain, are the only true universals of language [...]. Thus, the focus for establishing the explanations for cross-linguistic similarities should be on the mechanisms of change" Joan Bybee (2008: 108). AbstractIn this paper, we argue that an expanded conception of the distinction between speaker-oriented and subjectoriented inferences is crucial for understanding the motivations and mechanisms of semantic change in grammaticalization and subjectivation, on the one hand, and for clarifying the links between semantic change and reductive formal changes. Speaker-oriented inferences have significant consequences, leading to the relaxation of selectional restrictions on a construction. In turn, the relaxation of selectional restrictions can create conditions in which the type-and token-frequency of a construction can rise considerably. Furthermore, changes in the selectional restrictions on a construction can themselves catalyze semantic change by coercing listeners into new form-function pairings. This framework is applied to the grammaticalization of allative futures, a typological comparative concept developed in order to compare structurally diverse future tenses. A small typological study allows us to reconsider some problematic pathways of grammaticalization and to suggest some alternative analyses. Following the typological discussion, a detailed diachronic case study of a verbless allative future in Ancient Egyptian is presented.

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Embodying Justice in Ancient Egypt:The Tale of the Eloquent Peasantas a Classic of Political Philosophy

Jeffers

2013

British Journal for the History of Philosophy

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Literary Form and the "Tale of the Eloquent Peasant"

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Using the Concepts of Hermeneutical Injustice and Ideology to Explain the Stability of Ancient Egypt During the Middle Kingdom

Using the Concepts of Hermeneutical Injustice and Ideology to Explain the Stability of Ancient Egypt During the Middle Kingdom

On the pragmatics of subjectification: The grammaticalization of verbless allative futures (with a case study in Ancient Egyptian)

Embodying Justice in Ancient Egypt:The Tale of the Eloquent Peasantas a Classic of Political Philosophy

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