Turn taking and power relations in Plautus' Casina

Berger, Łukasz

doi:10.5817/glb2020-1-2

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“…Müller (1997, 50-55). For the paterfamilias acting as floor manager (with special focus on Plautus' Casina), see recently Berger (2020b). This direct language of the passage had led scholars to suggest that these lines were attributed to a man in the Greek original, especially given Myrrhina's seemingly misogynistic ideas (see Feltovich 2015a, 247-248).…”

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Interruptions in Roman Comedy: Gender, Status, and Power in Interaction

Berger

2021

Philologia Classica

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The article addresses the pragmatic and sociolinguistic constraints of interrupting in Roman comedy. It starts with a redefinition of the phenomenon informed by the methods of Conversation Analysis (CA): apart from syntactically incomplete utterances (as a result of interruptions by others), the analysis also includes the cases of interruptions reported by the characters. Furthermore, a distinction is made between intrusive (disaligning) interventions and other forms of competitive turn encroachments. The term ‘interruptions’, however, has been reserved only for the former, antagonistic type which serves to express disagreement and disinterest or to usurp the speaking turn. Using the revised criteria, the article proceeds to comment on quantitative data extracted from all the extant plays by Plautus and Terence. Accordingly, interruptions are viewed in relation to gender, age and status of the speakers, whereas some more detailed analysis concerns male and female citizens, prostitutes and servants. After comparing every character’s share of talk with their proportional use of turn incursions (both collaborative and disruptive), it is argued that the violation of the turn-exchange system is significantly associated with some interlocutors and less so with others. The last section presents interrupting as a pragmatic means of exerting power in interaction while discussing the phenomenon also from a (sociolinguistic) cross-gender perspective.

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Interruptions in Roman Comedy: Gender, Status, and Power in Interaction

Berger

2021

Philologia Classica

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“…the methodology of Conversation analysis has been applied to ancient Greek language and literature by Minchin 2011, sorrentino 2012, schuren 2014, drummen 2016, Person 2017, Van emde Boas 2017a, and Verano 2021. in latin, it is worth mentioning the contributions by Berger 2016Berger , 2018Berger , 2020aBerger , 2020b 1960's and 1970's, collected in sacks 1992. 6 illustrative examples provided throughout this study come from all the corpus platonicum.…”

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Politeness and Interaction in Ancient Greek

Verano

2022

Veleia

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Following the descriptive and methodological framework of Conversation Analysis, this paper analyzes the linguistic strategies employed in order to avoid or prevent dispreferred reactions in interaction, and examines their implications in terms of positive and negative face. It focuses especially on the treatment of possible rejections to requests and offers, and on the avoidance of direct disagreement in talk-in-interaction. This is a corpus study based on the dialogues of Plato.

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Turn taking and power relations in Plautus' Casina

Cited by 2 publications

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Interruptions in Roman Comedy: Gender, Status, and Power in Interaction

Interruptions in Roman Comedy: Gender, Status, and Power in Interaction

Politeness and Interaction in Ancient Greek

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