عنوان

Linguistic interaction in Roman comedy /

(Number (ISBN

1107129826

(Number (ISBN

9781107129825

Title Proper

Linguistic interaction in Roman comedy /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Peter Barrios-Lech.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxiii, 381 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-368) and index.

Text of Note

1. Introduction -- Part I. How to Command and Request in Early Latin: 2. Introducing Latin commands and requests, or directives; 3. Fac, facito ("do." "you shall do"): the present and future imperative; 4. Facias, faciamus ("do," "let us do"): jussive and horatory subjenctives; 5. e facias, ne fac, noli facere, and other Latin prohibitions; 6. Quin facis? ("Why don't you do?"): Latin "question requests; 7. Aequom est te facere ("It's right thta you do") and other Latin impersonal requests; 8. Potin t facias? and volo ut facias: possibility and violation; Summary of Part I -- Part II. How to Say "Please" In Early Latin, and More: Exploring Parenthetical Particles: 9. "Fac amabo": how to soften a command; 10. "Quin fac!" how to strengthen a command; 11. Pluet cras, ut opinor": how to soften a statement in Latin -- Part III. How to Greet and Gain Attention, and When to Interrupt: Exploring Dialogue Signals in Early Latin: 12. Interruptions and attention-getters; 13. Conventional openings and closings to Roman drama; Conclusions to part I-III -- Part IV: The Language of Friendship, the Language of Domination: Introduction to Part IV; 14. Friendly talk; 15. Talk between masters and slaves -- Part V. Role Shifts, Speech Shifts: 16. Trading roles, reading soeech in Captivi; 17. Changing speech patterns in Terentian comedy: Eunuch and Adelphoe -- Appendices: 1. Speech and character types in Roman comedy; 2. About the directive database; 3. Politeness phenomena in Roman comedy.

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"This book presents a comprehensive account of features of Latin that emerge from dialogue: commands and requests, command softeners and strengtheners, statement hedges, interruptions, attention-getters, greetings and closings. In analyzing these features, Peter Barrios-Lech employs a quantitative method and draws on all the data from Roman comedy and the fragments of Latin drama. In the first three parts, on commands and requests, particles, attention-getters and interruptions, the driving questions are firstly - what leads the speaker to choose one form over another? And secondly - how do the playwrights use these features to characterize on the linguistic level? Part IV analyzes dialogues among equals and slave speech, and employs data-driven analyses to show how speakers enact roles and construct relationships with each other through conversation. The book will be important to all scholars of Latin, and especially to scholars of Roman drama"--

Latin drama (Comedy)-- History and criticism.

Latin language-- Grammar, Historical.

Rhetoric, Ancient-- History and criticism.

Latin (langue)-- Grammaire.

Latin drama (Comedy)

Latin language-- Grammar, Historical.

Linguistique.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

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Barrios-Lech, Peter,1977-

Date of Transaction

20200822145957.0

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