First-Person Futures in Homer

Christensen, Joel P.

doi:10.1353/ajp.2010.a407737

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“…Ancient Greek also allows future tense in performatives, cf. Christensen ( 2010 ), and future tense performatives are reported for other languages like Bulgarian, Tibetan, and Tamil as well. A future-tense proposition in a branching-time model is a modal proposition that states that the core proposition becomes true in all histories extending from the current index.…”

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Performative updates and the modeling of speech acts

Krifka

2024

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This paper develops a way to model performative speech acts within a framework of dynamic semantics. It introduces a distinction between performative and informative updates, where informative updates filter out indices of context sets (cf. Stalnaker, Cole (ed), Pragmatics, Academic Press, 1978), whereas performative updates change their indices (cf. Szabolcsi, Kiefer (ed), Hungarian linguistics, John Benjamins, 1982). The notion of index change is investigated in detail, identifying implementations by a function or by a relation. Declarations like the meeting is (hereby) adjourned are purely performative updates that just enforce an index change on a context set. Assertions like the meeting is (already) adjourned are analyzed as combinations of a performative update that introduces a guarantee of the speaker for the truth of the proposition, and an informative update that restricts the context set so that this proposition is true. The first update is the illocutionary act characteristic for assertions; the second is the primary perlocutionary act, and is up for negotiations with the addressee. Several other speech acts will be discussed, in particular commissives, directives, exclamatives, optatives, and definitions, which are all performative, and differ from related assertions. The paper concludes a discussion of locutionary acts, which are modelled as index changers as well, and proposes a novel analysis for the performative marker hereby.

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PRESENT, FUTURE AND PAST IN THEHOMERIC HYMN TO APOLLO

Passmore¹

2018

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Within Classics, there is growing interest in the nature of reperformance, particularly in relation to archaic and classical Greek poetry and drama. Developing out of the now well-established ‘performative turn’ in studies of early Greek song, and gaining impetus from a series of publications focussing on the contextual specificity of archaic lyric and drama, those interested in reperformance ask what it means for a song or a play, composed for a specific occasion, to be reperformed in another time and (potentially) another place. While interest in reperformance is certainly not new, the debate is now increasingly taking place in dialogue with parallel studies of reperformance in other disciplines. Research in performance studies has articulated a paradox at the heart of reperformance: since aperformanceis imagined as a singular event that exists only in that moment, and in a specific context,reperformance is an attempt to repeat the unique. Theorists and practitioners have in turn explored this paradox in relation to the restagings and re-enactments of one-time events and performances, such as battle re-enactments, the reconstruction of ballet choreographies before the days of film and live performance art. These examples reveal the complex temporalities involved in reperforming notionally one-time events, as an attempt to capture the ephemeral and collapse the present and the past (as well as the there and the not-there) in the ‘syncopated time’ of the reperformance.

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Achilles and the Resources of Genre: Epitaph, Hymnos, and Paean in Iliad 22.386–94

Sansom

2024

Classical Philology

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First-Person Futures in Homer

Cited by 3 publications

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Performative updates and the modeling of speech acts

Performative updates and the modeling of speech acts

PRESENT, FUTURE AND PAST IN THEHOMERIC HYMN TO APOLLO

Achilles and the Resources of Genre: Epitaph, Hymnos, and Paean in Iliad 22.386–94

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