Linguistic Interaction in Roman Comedy

Informationen zum Autor Peter Barrios-Lech is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Besides teaching Latin and Greek, and courses in Greek and Roman civilization, he co-directs the Conventiculum Bostoniense, a week-length program in spoken Latin which attracts graduate students, professors, high-school students and Latin enthusiasts from around the country. He has published articles on the language of Plautus and Terence and is currently working on a book on Greek New Comedy. Klappentext A comprehensive account of features of Latin that emerge from dialogue, drawing on the data from Roman comedy and drama. Zusammenfassung There exist many ways in Latin of expressing the same thing! whether conveying an order or a greeting. What factors lead speakers to choose one expression over another? This book answers these questions in a comprehensive and original way. It will interest scholars of Latin and of Roman drama. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Part I. The Latin Directive: Introduction to Part I; 2. The moods of command - imperatives and subjunctives; 3. Prohibitions in Early Latin; 4. Indirect requests - questions and statements; 5. The 'can you' request and others; Conclusion to Part I; Part II. Interactional Particles in Roman Comedy: 6. How to soften a command; 7. How to strengthen a command; 8. How to soften a statement in Latin; Part III. Structuring Conversation: 9. Interruptions and attention-getters; 10. Openings and closings in Roman comedy; Conclusion to Parts I-III: summary of findings; Part IV. Interpreting Interactions in Roman Comedy: 11. Discourse in Roman comedy; 12. Role shifts, speech shifts; Appendix 1. Speech and character types in Roman comedy; Appendix 2. About the directive database; Appendix 3. Politeness phenomena in Roman comedy.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Barrios-Lech, Peter (University of Massachusetts Barrios-Lech, Barrios-Lech Peter, Peter Barrios Lech
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.05.2016
• EAN: 9781107129825
• ISBN: 978-1-107-12982-5
• No. of pages: 410
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Historical & comparative linguistics, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Historical and comparative linguistics