Sophocles and the Greek Language

Aspects of Diction, Syntax and Pragmatics
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14752-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 269, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

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.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in classical philology, classical literature and classical linguistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rijksbaron, Albert

de Jong, Irene

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Irene J.F. de Jong (Ph.D. 1987) is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Amsterdam. She has published on Homer, Euripides, and Herodotus. Her publications include A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey (2001).
Albert Rijksbaron (Ph.D. 1976) is Professor of Ancient Greek Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. His publications include The Syntax and Semantics of the Greek Verb, Grammatical Observations on Euripides' Bacchae, and The Kellis Isocrates Codex (with K.A. Worp)