Pragmatic approaches to drama : studies in communication on the ancient stage
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Pragmatic approaches to drama : studies in communication on the ancient stage
(The language of classical literature, v. 32)
Brill, c2021
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"This book assembles selected papers from a conference entitled Doing Things with Words on Stage. Pragmatics and its Use in Ancient Drama, which was held at the University of Zurich from 4th to 7th July 2018"--P. [1]
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
This volume collects papers on pragmatic perspectives on ancient theatre. Scholars working on literature, linguistics, theatre will find interesting insights on verbal and non-verbal uses of language in ancient Greek and Roman Drama. Comedies and tragedies spanning from the 5th century B.C.E. to the 1st century C.E. are investigated in terms of im/politeness, theory of mind, interpersonal pragmatics, body language, to name some of the approaches which afford new interpretations of difficult textual passages or shed new light into nuances of characterisation, or possibilities of performance. Words, silence, gestures, do things, all the more so in dramatic dialogues on stage.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Gunther Martin, Federica Iurescia, Severin Hof and Giada Sorrentino
Part 1 Verbal Communication I: Doing Things with Words
How To Do Things with ( ) and in Tragedy: Initial Suggestions
Anna Bonifazi
Pointing to Common Ground in Dramatic Dialogue: The Case of and
Rutger J. Allan
Terms of Address on Right Periphery in Greek Tragedy
Sandra Rodriguez Piedrabuena
The Linguistic Characterisation of Oedipus in OT: A Pragmatics-Based Approach to 'Mind Style'
Evert van Emde Boas
Resonance in the Prologue of Sophocles' Ajax
Severin Hof
Pentheus und Dionysos in den Bakchen: Die Grenzen des klaren Dialogs
Camille Semenzato
Iphigenie und ihre Mutter: Pragmatische Bemerkungen zur Iphigenie in Aulis
Giada Sorrentino
Part 2 Verbal Communication II: Being More or Less Kind with Words
Oedipus and Tiresias: Im/politeness Theory and the Interpretation of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus
Luigi Battezzato
Politeness and Impoliteness in Aristophanes
Michael Lloyd
Developments in Politeness from Aristophanes to Menander and Beyond
Peter Barrios-Lech
Advice-Giving in Roman Comedy: Speech-Act Formulation and Im/politeness
Lukasz Berger
The Politics of Manipulation: Politeness and Insincerity in the Language of Parasites and Courtesans in Plautus' Comedies
Luis Unceta Gomez
Part 3 Verbal and Non-verbal Communication: Doing Things Not Just with Words
Silence and the Failure of Persuasion in Tragic Discourse
Vanessa Zetzmann
Doing Things with Words ... and Gestures on Stage
Matteo Capponi
Reflections on Gestures and Words in Terence's Comedies
Licinia Ricottilli
The Kiss in Plautus' Stichus: Notes on Gestures and Words in View of a Pragmatics of Comic Communication
Renata Raccanelli
Lacrimae and uultus: Pragmatic Considerations on Gestures in Seneca's Tragedies
Evita Calabrese
Pragmatics of fraus: Encoding and Decoding of Deceit in Seneca's Troades and Thyestes
Lavinia Scolari
Epilogue
Euripides: Von der Rhetorik zur Pragmatik
Carlo Scardino
Index Locorum
Index Rerum
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