{"product_id":"roman-social-imaginaries-clifford-ando-9781442650176","title":"Roman Social Imaginaries: Language and Thought in the Context of Empire","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Clifford Ando\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442650176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442650176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2015","brand":"Clifford Ando","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44072965636351,"sku":"9781442650176","price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a9c2e63f-d3c1-48a6-b20b-a15d444a4664.jpg?v=1685444997","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/roman-social-imaginaries-clifford-ando-9781442650176","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}