Sophocles and the Greek language
aspects of diction, syntax and pragmatics
- ISBN: 9789004147522
- Editorial: Brill
- Fecha de la edición: 2005
- Lugar de la edición: Leiden. None
- Colección: Mnemosyne supplementa
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 267
- Idiomas: Inglés
This volume offers an extensive overview of the various ways in which Sophocles# use of the Greek language is currently being studied. Greatly admired in antiquity, Sophocles# style only became a serious subject of investigation with Campbell#s Introductory essay On the language of Sophocles (1879). Fourteen chapters, divided into three sections (diction, syntax, pragmatics), discuss the linguistic register and use of gnomai in Ajax# deception speech, Homeric intertextuality, the style of the Sophoclean satyr-plays in relation to tragedy and comedy, the relation between the repetition of words and focalization, the language of blindness, the image of #fire#, the use of deictic pronouns, the semantics of the middle-passive and of counterfactuals, the historic present and the constitution of the text, the suggestive power of descriptions, speech- acts, and strategies of politeness.
