Dialect in Aristophanes - The Politics of Language in Ancient Greek Literature

Zusatztext A very welcome reference tool ... Colvin has written a thought-provoking book which should be widely read. Klappentext Did the Greeks find it amusing, irritating, or threatening when they heard another Greek speaking in a different dialect? This book exploits the evidence of ancient Greek comedy in an attempt to answer some of the questions about ancient language attitudes. Colvin draws conclusions from a comparative study of the language of dialect speaking characters and other foreigners in Old Comedy, and on an examination of linguistic attitudes in other genres of Greek literature. Zusammenfassung Did the Greeks find it amusing, irritating or threatening when they heard another Greek speaking in a different dialect? This book exploits the evidence of ancient Greek comedy in an attempt to answer some of the questions about language attitude which are important for understanding ancient ideas about language and ethnicity.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Colvin, Stephen (Assistant Professor in Greek Lite Colvin, Colvin Stephen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.1998
• EAN: 9780198152491
• ISBN: 978-0-19-815249-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Oxford Classical Monographs; Oxford Classical Monographs
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Sociolinguistics, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Psycholinguistics, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Literary studies: plays and playwrights