Greeting and farewell expressions as evidence for colloquial language: between literary and epigraphical texts

Poccetti, Paolo

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“…Firstly, detailed diachronic and synchronic descriptions of Greek and Latin forms of address (Dickey 1995;1996;2002;2004a;2004b;Brown 2003; have been offered, suggesting a relation between these usages and the relative social standings of the speakers in interaction. Secondly, behaviour in conversation rituals, e.g., greetings and farewells (Ferri 2008;Poccetti 2010) and the use of formulaic expressions such as 'yes', 'no', and 'please' (Krylová 2004;Ferri 2010;Dickey 2012) have been investigated, although in Latin only. Thirdly, some attention has been devoted to diachronic realizations of individual classes of speech acts, e.g., directives (Risselada 1993;Leiwo 2010;Denizot 2011), or individual types of face-threatening acts, e.g., insults (Lentini 2013).…”

Section: Politeness In Greek and Latin Literature: An Overviewmentioning

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Off-record politeness in Sophocles: The patterned dialogues of female characters

Catrambone¹

2016

Journal of Politeness Research

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This paper tests the applicability of Brown and Levinson's concept of off-record politeness on a specific sub-set of patterned dialogues in Sophocles' extant tragedies, i.e., those involving the participation of female speakers. Brown and Levinson's framework still provides the most suitable model for empirical analysis, but with refinements concerning the interrelation between emic and etic politeness, the notion of face, the extension of analysis to longer stretches of conversation, and the absolute ranking of the super-strategies. The survey suggests that a strict connection between the use of off record and the mitigation of FTAs can be established quite straightforwardly and that the hearer's reactions to off record can help to identify the valid instances of the phenomenon. Moreover, it is argued that (a) female speakers frequently resort to off record, most notably in cross-sex interactions with men invested with high power; (b) few restricted categories of male speakers, i.e., strangers and lowerstatus characters, do use off-record politeness towards women; (c) off record in same-sex interactions among female characters is limited to when the imposition is of extraordinary seriousness.

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Off-record politeness in Sophocles: The patterned dialogues of female characters

Catrambone¹

2016

Journal of Politeness Research

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“…Agamennone invece si rifiuta di avallare questo sacrificio umano: questo l'antefatto della lite che Seneca rappresenta nelle fasi iniziali della tragedia 5 . È proprio in questo modo che Pirro ed Agamennone entrano in scena 6 ; i due potrebbero essersi incontrati ed aver iniziato a parlare in precedenza 7 , cominciando l'interazione nel modo che è stato ricostruito come consueto per il latino (Hofmann 1983;Ferri 2008;Roesch 2008;Poccetti 2010). Trattandosi di una lite però, è anche possibile che l'inizio di conversazione non sia quello usuale in cui i parlanti innanzitutto si salutano, poi indugiano più o meno brevemente in small talks ed infine entrano nel merito della conversazione (Berger 2016).…”

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Litigare in tragedia: per una pragmatica del conflitto

Iurescia

2019

Emerita

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Cómo citar este artículo / Citation: Iurescia, Federica 2019: «Litigare in tragedia: per una pragmatica del conflitto», Emerita 87 (2), pp. 255-283.Il presente lavoro ha come oggetto un tipo di conversazione, la lite, in un genere letterario, la tragedia romana, e ne offre un'analisi pragmatica. Partendo da una definizione del tipo di conversazione oggetto di studio, si applica alle attestazioni reperite nel corpus scelto l'approccio maturato entro il settore degli studi sull'im/politeness. Le osservazioni risultanti vengono messe a confronto con le tendenze rilevate in un precedente studio sulle liti nella commedia e nel romanzo latini, mettendo in luce convergenze e differenze.Parole chiave: Seneca; Tragedia; lite; pragmatica; impoliteness.This paper offers a pragmatic analysis of quarrels in Roman Tragedy. Its aim is to study this kind of conflictual interactions from a pragmatic perspective, and to compare tragic quarrels with quarrels in Roman Comedy and Novel, object of a previous study. The theoretical approach situated in the realm of im/politeness theories allows to describe the linguistic forms used in quarrels, and provides a coherent framework to study impoliteness in Latin, delineating patterns of behaviour through different literary genres across a wide time span. This paper offers a further step in this direction.

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Greeting and farewell expressions as evidence for colloquial language: between literary and epigraphical texts

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Off-record politeness in Sophocles: The patterned dialogues of female characters

Off-record politeness in Sophocles: The patterned dialogues of female characters

Litigare in tragedia: per una pragmatica del conflitto

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