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Pragmatic approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek /

"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 t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Societas Linguistica Europaea. Meeting, Pragmatics and classical languages (Workshop)
Otros Autores: Denizot, Camille (Editor ), Spevak, Olga (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 190.
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  • Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Editors8099; foreword
  • Part I. Speech acts and pragmaticalization
  • Part II. New insights into word order
  • Part III. Pragmatic interfaces: The case of partD;
  • List of contributors
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1. Pragmatics in Latin and Ancient Greek: An introduction
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Speech acts
  • i. Interpersonal relations and politeness
  • ii. Pragmatic markers
  • 3. Constituent order
  • 4. Conjunctions, connectors, and particles5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Part I. Speech acts
  • Chapter 2. Illocutionary force and modality: How to tackle the issue in Ancient Greek
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Internal analysis of Greek data
  • 2.1 Illocutionary and modality verbs
  • 2.2 Particles
  • 2.3 Discursive context
  • 2.4 Subordinate mood selection
  • 3. Comparative and typological parallels
  • 4. Grammarians
  • 5. A case study: phelon 5.1 Stages ;II: From lexical verb to modal verb
  • 5.2 Stage III: Counterfactual assertions5.3 Stage IV: From declarative to desiderative counterfactuals
  • 5.4 Stage V: Development from verb into particle
  • 5.5 Stage VI: Extension to non-counterfactual wishes
  • 6. Summary and conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 3. Pragmatic functions of the Latin vocative
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Vocative: Form, construction, utterance
  • 3. The traditionally recognized call and address functions and their definition
  • 4. Vocative as a marker of discourse structure
  • 5. Vocative of sincerity and guarantee
  • 6. Reduplicated vocative of discontent7. Functions of the vocative-construction and the lexical meaning of the words involved
  • 8. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 4. Discursive and pragmatic functions of Latin em: Grammaticalization, pragmaticalization interjectionalization?
  • 1. Introduction: Data and methods
  • 2. Etymological content: em imperative of emere
  • 3. Grammaticalization: Presentative function
  • 4. Pragmaticalization: em as a discourse and pragmatic marker
  • 4.1 Reference to one ;s own discourse
  • 4.2 Reference to the interlocutor ;s discourse5. Expression of the speaker;s subjectivity: Interjectionalization?
  • 6. The diachronic axis
  • 7. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 5. Quapropter, quaeso? : Questions and the pragmatic functions of quaeso, obsecro, and amabo in Plautus
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Object of investigation
  • 1.2 State of the art and aims of the present study
  • 1.3 Pragmatic markers and their analysis in a classical language