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Informationen zum Autor Alessandro Vatri is a Research Assistant in Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford and Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College. He completed a DPhil in Classical Languages and Literature at Oxford in 2013, having received his MA in Classics from Sapienza University of Rome. His research focuses on Ancient Greek linguistics, rhetoric, oratory, and cultural history, and he has published several articles in these fields as well as co-convened the international conferences 'The Language of Persuasion' (UCL, 2014) and 'Language in Style' (Oxford, 2016) and the seminar series 'Systems of Style' (Oxford and UCL, 2015). As well as his teaching and research in these areas, he is also actively interested in the development of tools and methods for the study of language through digital text corpora. Klappentext This study discusses whether there is a linguistic difference between classical Attic prose texts intended for public oral delivery and those intended for written circulation and private performance, establishing a rigorous methodology for the reconstruction of the native perception of clarity in the original contexts of textual reception. Zusammenfassung This study discusses whether there is a linguistic difference between classical Attic prose texts intended for public oral delivery and those intended for written circulation and private performance, establishing a rigorous methodology for the reconstruction of the native perception of clarity in the original contexts of textual reception. Inhaltsverzeichnis Frontmatter List of figures List of tables Abbreviations and editions used 1: The Orality of Attic Prose 1.1 A manifold concept 1.2 Oral language(s) and oral style(s) 1.3 From composition to performance 2: Contexts of Reception 2.1 Texts and communication 2.2 Reading 2.3 Public and private situations 3: The Writing of Attic Prose 3.1 From composition to reception 3.2 Setting the scene (1): literacy and reading in classical Athens 3.3 Setting the scene (2): genres and written texts 3.3.1 Epic poetry 3.3.2 Monodic poetry 3.3.3 Choral poetry 3.3.4 Drama 3.3.5 Ionic prose 3.4 The circulation and use of Attic prose texts 3.4.1 Historiography 3.4.2 Philosophy 3.4.3 Oratory 4: Comprehension 4.1 The domains of clarity 4.2 Precepts and examples 4.3 The psycholinguistics of sapheneia 4.3.1 Language comprehension: an overview 4.3.2 Sentence processing 4.3.3 Sentence length 4.3.4 Sentence structure 4.3.5 Word order 4.3.6 Vocabulary 4.4 Paralinguistic and non-linguistic elements 4.4.1 Prosody 4.4.2 Gesture 4.5 Reading the native mind 5: Processing Attic Oratory in Performance: An Experiment in Reconstruction 5.1 Design 5.2 Methodology and limitations 5.3 'I like drinking water', or: indifferent interpretations 5.4 Results 5.4.1 Lys. 1 5.4.2 Lys. 12.1 50 5.4.3 D. 22.1 47 5.4.4 Antipho 1 5.4.5 D. 9.1 40 5.4.6 D. 15 5.4.7 Hyp. 6 5.4.8 Pl. Ap. 17a 24a4 5.4.9 Antipho 4 5.4.10 Isoc. 6.1 44 5.4.11 Isoc. 7.1 33 5.4.12 Th. 2.35 46 5.4.13 Pl. Mnx. 236d 44b 5.4.14 Isoc. 9.1 43 5.5 Discussion 6: Conclusion and Future Directions Appendix: Notes on Linguistic Dependencies in Classical Greek Endmatter Bibliography Index ...
