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Book SynopsisThis 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 ContentsNotes 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 (ἐ)κεῖνος and αὐτός in Tragedy: Initial Suggestions Anna Bonifazi Pointing to Common Ground in Dramatic Dialogue: The Case of δή and τοι Rutger J. Allan Terms of Address on Right Periphery in Greek Tragedy Sandra Rodríguez 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 Łukasz Berger The Politics of Manipulation: Politeness and Insincerity in the Language of Parasites and Courtesans in Plautus’ Comedies Luis Unceta Gómez 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
