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: Available

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

Table of Contents

Editors’ foreword	vii–x
List of contributors	xi–xiii
Abbreviations	xv–xvi
Chapter 1. Pragmatics in Latin and Ancient Greek: An introduction Olga Spevak and Camille Denizot	1–13
Part I. Speech acts	15–109
Chapter 2. Illocutionary force and modality: How to tackle the issue in Ancient Greek Antonio R. Revuelta Puigdollers	17–43
Chapter 3. Pragmatic functions of the Latin vocative Michal Ctibor	45–62
Chapter 4. Discursive and pragmatic functions of Latin em: Grammaticalization, pragmaticalization… interjectionalization? Luis Unceta Gómez	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	83–109
Part II. New insights into word order	111–210
Chapter 6. Constituent order in directives with stative verbs in Latin Concepción Cabrillana	113–135
Chapter 7. The right periphery in Ancient Greek Emilia Ruiz Yamuza	137–158
Chapter 8. Res Gestae Divi Augusti: Word order and pragmatics of the Latin original María Esperanza Torrego	159–179
Chapter 9. Res Gestae Divi Augusti: Pragmatic structure and word order of the Greek translation Jesús de la Villa	181–210
Part III. Pragmatic interfaces	211–301
Chapter 10. On the distribution of some interactive/conclusive discourse markers in Plato’s Theaetetus Liana Tronci	213–234
Chapter 11. Polar questions in Latin with and without the enclitic particle -ne Josine Schrickx	235–255
Chapter 12. A unitary account of the meaning of kaí Emilio Crespo	257–272
Chapter 13. Ancient Greek adversative particles in contrast Rutger J. Allan	273–301
Index locorum	303–306
Index rerum	307–309

“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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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

Classical linguistics

Pragmatics

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

BISAC Subject: LAN009030 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2017030571