{"pk":3994,"title":"Recitation, Speech Acts, and Declamation","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Ancient Egyptian texts have been found with instructions on how they should be performed. Recitation, speech acts, and declamation are related to the action of speaking out loud in religious-ritual and juridical contexts, as well as for entertainment. Recitations are used in contexts that demand a correct wording or the power of words as utterance. Speech acts are performative or operative texts, which have an effect by being spoken out loud and result in a change of the persons or objects that are addressed by the text. Declamations are a performance of literary compositions to an audience. The basis on which texts can be considered as part of a recitation, speech act, or declamation are not only in-text terms but also indications of their performance-context, their localization in an accessible place, and their performance by an authorized person.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Jurisdiction"},{"word":"Late Middle Egyptian"},{"word":"libraries"},{"word":"Literature"},{"word":"literary styles"},{"word":"oath"},{"word":"priest"},{"word":"papyri"},{"word":"performative"},{"word":"Pyramid Texts"},{"word":"Rhetoric"},{"word":"ritual"},{"word":"speech-act"},{"word":"thought couplets"},{"word":"Near Eastern Languages and Societies"}],"section":"Material Culture, Art and Architecture","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1gh1q0md","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Erika","middle_name":"","last_name":"Meyer-Dietrich","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Uppsala, Sweden","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2008-05-16T07:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2008-05-16T07:00:00Z","date_published":"2010-09-25T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/3994/galley/2570/download/"}]}