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Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek
Editors
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 types. It comprises empirical synchronic studies that deal with three main topics: (i) speech acts and pragmatic markers, (ii) word order, and (iii) discourse markers and particles. The specificity of this book consists in the discussion and application of various methodological approaches. It provides new insights into the pragmatic phenomena encountered, compares, where possible, the results of the investigation of the two languages, and draws conclusions of a more general nature. The volume will be of interest to linguists working on pragmatics in general and to scholars of Latin and Ancient Greek in particular.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 190] 2017. xvi, 309 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 October 2017
Published online on 3 October 2017
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Editors’ foreword | pp. vii–x
- List of contributors | pp. xi–xiv
- Abbreviations | pp. xv–xvi
- Chapter 1. Pragmatics in Latin and Ancient Greek: An introductionOlga Spevak and Camille Denizot | pp. 1–14
- Part I. Speech acts
- Chapter 2. Illocutionary force and modality: How to tackle the issue in Ancient GreekAntonio R. Revuelta Puigdollers | pp. 17–44
- Chapter 3. Pragmatic functions of the Latin vocativeMichal Ctibor | pp. 45–62
- Chapter 4. Discursive and pragmatic functions of Latin em : Grammaticalization, pragmaticalization… interjectionalization?Luis Unceta Gómez | pp. 63–82
- Chapter 5. Quapropter, quaeso? ‘Why, for pity’s sake?’: Questions and the pragmatic functions of quaeso, obsecro, and amabo in PlautusChiara Fedriani | pp. 83–110
- Part II. New insights into word order
- Chapter 6. Constituent order in directives with stative verbs in LatinConcepción Cabrillana | pp. 113–136
- Chapter 7. The right periphery in Ancient GreekEmilia Ruiz Yamuza | pp. 137–158
- Chapter 8. Res Gestae Divi Augusti : Word order and pragmatics of the Latin originalEsperanza Torrego | pp. 159–180
- Chapter 9. Res Gestae Divi Augusti : Pragmatic structure and word order of the Greek translationJesús de la Villa | pp. 181–210
- Part III. Pragmatic interfaces: The case of “particles”
- Chapter 10. On the distribution of some interactive/conclusive discourse markers in Plato’s TheaetetusLiana Tronci | pp. 213–234
- Chapter 11. Polar questions in Latin with and without the enclitic particle -neJosine Schrickx | pp. 235–256
- Chapter 12. A unitary account of the meaning of kaíEmilio Crespo | pp. 257–272
- Chapter 13. Ancient Greek adversative particles in contrastRutger J. Allan | pp. 273–302
- Index locorum
- Index rerum
“This book provides useful insights for readers interested in the specific Latin and Greek phenomena which are discussed, and a stimulus for further research on the pragmatics of corpus languages.”
Katherine Shields, University College London, on Linguist List 28-5257, 2018
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