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Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek
Edited by Camille Denizot and Olga Spevak
[Studies in Language Companion Series 190] 2017
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Chapter 1
Pragmatics in Latin and Ancient Greek

An introduction

 | University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès
 | University of Paris Nanterre
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Speech acts
    • i.Interpersonal relations and politeness
    • ii.Pragmatic markers
  • 3.Constituent order
  • 4.Conjunctions, connectors, and particles
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 1 November 2017
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