Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek

Editors

Camille Denizot | University of Paris West Nanterre La Défense

Olga Spevak | University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès

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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:

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.190

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 introduction

Olga Spevak and Camille Denizot | pp. 1–14

Part I. Speech acts

Chapter 2. Illocutionary force and modality: How to tackle the issue in Ancient Greek

Antonio R. Revuelta Puigdollers | pp. 17–44

Chapter 3. Pragmatic functions of the Latin vocative

Michal 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 Plautus

Chiara Fedriani | pp. 83–110

Part II. New insights into word order

Chapter 6. Constituent order in directives with stative verbs in Latin

Concepción Cabrillana | pp. 113–136

Chapter 7. The right periphery in Ancient Greek

Emilia Ruiz Yamuza | pp. 137–158

Chapter 8. Res Gestae Divi Augusti : Word order and pragmatics of the Latin original

Esperanza Torrego | pp. 159–180

Chapter 9. Res Gestae Divi Augusti : Pragmatic structure and word order of the Greek translation

Jesús 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 Theaetetus

Liana Tronci | pp. 213–234

Chapter 11. Polar questions in Latin with and without the enclitic particle -ne

Josine Schrickx | pp. 235–256

Chapter 12. A unitary account of the meaning of kaí

Emilio Crespo | pp. 257–272

Chapter 13. Ancient Greek adversative particles in contrast

Rutger J. Allan | pp. 273–302

“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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