{"product_id":"roman-social-imaginaries-language-and-thought-in-the-context-of-empire-hardback-9781442650176","title":"Roman Social Imaginaries; Language and Thought in the Context of Empire (Hardback) 9781442650176","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRoman Social Imaginaries\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLanguage and Thought in the Context of Empire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eClifford Ando (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442650176\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 April 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e136 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 1.6 cm, 0.36 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;This is a fascinating book – perceptive, effective, and reasoned… This is not only a singularly important contribution, but also a most welcome one.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Matt Gibbs (Journal Mnemosyne vol 69:2016)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking about law, society, and empire. Drawing on innovative work in cognitive linguistics and anthropology, \u003cem\u003eRoman Social Imaginaries\u003c\/em\u003e considers how metaphor, metonymy, analogy, and ideation helped create the structures of thought that shaped the Roman Empire as a political construct.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeginning in early Roman history, Ando shows how the expansion of the empire into new territories led the Romans to develop and exploit Latin’s extraordinary capacity for abstraction. In this way, laws and institutions invented for use in a single Mediterranean city-state could be deployed across a remarkably heterogeneous empire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLucid, insightful, and innovative, the essays in \u003cem\u003eRoman Social Imaginaries\u003c\/em\u003e constitute some of today’s most original thinking about the power of language in the ancient world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Roman Social Imaginaries\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Belonging\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Cognition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: The Ontology of the Social\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Making Romans\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52701995827480,"sku":"9781442650176","price":30.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/roman-social-imaginaries-language-and-thought-in-the-context-of-empire-hardback-9781442650176","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}