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Author:   Gunther Martin ,  Federica Iurescia ,  Severin Hof ,  Giada Sorrentino
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   32
Weight:   0.973kg
ISBN:  

9789004440197

ISBN 10:   9004440194
Pages:   498
Publication Date:   15 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Notes 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

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Gunther Martin, DPhil (2005), University of Oxford, is a lecturer and researcher at the Universities of Zurich and Bern. He has, among other things, published books on historiography, oratory, and a commentary on Euripides' Ion. Federica Iurescia, Ph.D. (2017), Universities of Siena and Pisa, worked as SNSF scientific collaborator at the University of Zurich. Her research interests focus on pragmatics in Latin, chiefly im/politeness and dialogues. Her main publication is Credo iam ut solet iurgabit. Pragmatica della lite a Roma (Göttingen, 2019). Severin Hof, MA (2016), University of Zurich, has written his PhD thesis on multiperspectivity in Sophocles at that university. His research interests include Greek drama, Medieval Latin, and papyrology. Giada Sorrentino, Ph.D. (2013), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br., has completed her post-doc research project at that university. She is author of various articles on Middle and New Comedy and of Comunicazione e relazioni interpersonali nelle commedie di Menandro (Göttingen 2020). Contributors are: Rutger J. Allan, Peter Barrios-Lech, Luigi Battezzato, Łukasz Berger, Anna Bonifazi, Evita Calabrese, Matteo Capponi, Evert van Emde Boas, Severin Hof, Federica Iurescia, Michael Lloyd, Gunther Martin, Sandra Rodríguez-Piedrabuena, Renata Raccanelli, Licinia Ricottilli, Carlo Scardino, Lavinia Scolari, Camille Semenzato, Giada Sorrentino, Luis Unceta Gómez, Vanessa Zetzmann.

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