Pragmatic Approaches to Drama

Studies in Communication on the Ancient Stage
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-44019-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 498 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 973 g

Reihe: The Language of Classical Literature

This volume collects papers on pragmatic perspectives on ancient theatre. Scholars working on literature, linguistics, theatre will find interesting insights on verbal and non-verbal uses of language in ancient Greek and Roman Drama. Comedies and tragedies spanning from the 5th century B.C.E. to the 1st century C.E. are investigated in terms of im/politeness, theory of mind, interpersonal pragmatics, body language, to name some of the approaches which afford new interpretations of difficult textual passages or shed new light into nuances of characterisation, or possibilities of performance. Words, silence, gestures, do things, all the more so in dramatic dialogues on stage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Martin, Gunther

Iurescia, Federica

Hof, Severin

Sorrentino, Giada

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Gunther Martin, Federica Iurescia, Severin Hof and Giada Sorrentino

Part 1 Verbal Communication I: Doing Things with Words

How To Do Things with (?)?e???? and a?t?? in Tragedy: Initial Suggestions

Anna Bonifazi

Pointing to Common Ground in Dramatic Dialogue: The Case of d? and t??

Rutger J. Allan

Terms of Address on Right Periphery in Greek Tragedy

Sandra Rodríguez Piedrabuena

The Linguistic Characterisation of Oedipus in OT: A Pragmatics-Based Approach to ‘Mind Style’

Evert van Emde Boas

Resonance in the Prologue of Sophocles’ Ajax

Severin Hof

Pentheus und Dionysos in den Bakchen: Die Grenzen des klaren Dialogs

Camille Semenzato

Iphigenie und ihre Mutter: Pragmatische Bemerkungen zur Iphigenie in Aulis

Giada Sorrentino

Part 2 Verbal Communication II: Being More or Less Kind with Words

Oedipus and Tiresias: Im/politeness Theory and the Interpretation of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus

Luigi Battezzato

Politeness and Impoliteness in Aristophanes

Michael Lloyd

Developments in Politeness from Aristophanes to Menander and Beyond

Peter Barrios-Lech

Advice-Giving in Roman Comedy: Speech-Act Formulation and Im/politeness

Lukasz Berger

The Politics of Manipulation: Politeness and Insincerity in the Language of Parasites and Courtesans in Plautus’ Comedies

Luis Unceta Gómez

Part 3 Verbal and Non-verbal Communication: Doing Things Not Just with Words

Silence and the Failure of Persuasion in Tragic Discourse

Vanessa Zetzmann

Doing Things with Words … and Gestures on Stage

Matteo Capponi

Reflections on Gestures and Words in Terence’s Comedies

Licinia Ricottilli

The Kiss in Plautus’ Stichus: Notes on Gestures and Words in View of a Pragmatics of Comic Communication

Renata Raccanelli

Lacrimae and uultus: Pragmatic Considerations on Gestures in Seneca’s Tragedies

Evita Calabrese

Pragmatics of fraus: Encoding and Decoding of Deceit in Seneca’s Troades and Thyestes

Lavinia Scolari

Epilogue

Euripides: Von der Rhetorik zur Pragmatik

Carlo Scardino

Index Locorum

Index Rerum

Über Autor(innen)

Gunther Martin, DPhil (2005), University of Oxford, is a lecturer and researcher at the Universities of Zurich and Bern. He has, among other things, published books on historiography, oratory, and a commentary on Euripides' Ion.

Federica Iurescia, Ph.D. (2017), Universities of Siena and Pisa, worked as SNSF scientific collaborator at the University of Zurich. Her research interests focus on pragmatics in Latin, chiefly im/politeness and dialogues. Her main publication is Credo iam ut solet iurgabit. Pragmatica della lite a Roma (Göttingen, 2019).

Severin Hof, MA (2016), University of Zurich, has written his PhD thesis on multiperspectivity in Sophocles at that university. His research interests include Greek drama, Medieval Latin, and papyrology.

Giada Sorrentino, Ph.D. (2013), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br., has completed her post-doc research project at that university. She is author of various articles on Middle and New Comedy and of Comunicazione e relazioni interpersonali nelle commedie di Menandro (Göttingen 2020).

Contributors are: Rutger J. Allan, Peter Barrios-Lech, Luigi Battezzato, Lukasz Berger, Anna Bonifazi, Evita Calabrese, Matteo Capponi, Evert van Emde Boas, Severin Hof, Federica Iurescia, Michael Lloyd, Gunther Martin, Sandra Rodríguez-Piedrabuena, Renata Raccanelli, Licinia Ricottilli, Carlo Scardino, Lavinia Scolari, Camille Semenzato, Giada Sorrentino, Luis Unceta Gómez, Vanessa Zetzmann.