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Sophocles and the Greek Language: Aspects of Diction, Syntax and Pragmatics

by Albert Rijksbaron , Irene de Jong
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004147522
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
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  • Pages: 272
  • Original Price: GBP 161.6
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 658 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient / General

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.

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)

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