Camille Denizot

List of John Benjamins publications in which Camille Denizot is involved.

Title

Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek

Edited by Camille Denizot and Olga Spevak

Pragmatics forms nowadays an integral part of the description not only of modern languages but also of ancient languages such as Latin and Ancient Greek. This book explores various pragmatic phenomena in these two languages, which are accessible through corpora consisting of a broad range of text… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 190] 2017. xvi, 309 pp.

Articles

Spevak, Olga and Camille Denizot 2017 Chapter 1. Pragmatics in Latin and Ancient Greek: An introduction Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek, Denizot, Camille and Olga Spevak (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter

Denizot, Camille 2012 Impolite orders in Ancient Greek? The οὐκ ἐρεῖς; type Journal of Historical Pragmatics 13:1, pp. 110–128 | Article

In Ancient Greek, an impolite order can be uttered by means of a negative interrogative in the future tense (οὐκ ἐρεῖς; ‘Won’t you talk?’). The aim of this paper is to understand to what extent this type of utterance is impolite, and to explain how such a conventional and indirect order can… read more