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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819175603321

Autore

Willi Andreas

Titolo

The languages of Aristophanes : aspects of linguistic variation in classical Attic Greek / / Andreas Willi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-281-34604-7

0-19-153231-2

0-19-151421-7

1-4294-7030-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Collana

Oxford classical monographs

Disciplina

822/.01

882.01

Soggetti

Language and culture - Greece

Greek language - Variation

Attic Greek dialect

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as the author's doctoral thesis.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-304) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Texts, Translations, and Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1. Introduction; 2. Religious Registers; 3. Technical Languages; 4. 'Scientific Discourse'; 5. Sophistic Innovations; 6. Female Speech; 7. Foreigner Talk; 8. Conclusion; Appendix: Aristophanes' Attic: A Grammatical Sketch; References; Index of Passages; Index of Greek; General Index

Sommario/riassunto

The play with linguistic styles constitutes an important ingredient of Aristophanic humour. Andreas Willi uses the stylistic diversity as a source to reconstruct the 'real' styles upon which Aristophanes based his text. Most of these 'real' styles would otherwise be lost because they are not represented in serious literature. - ;By examining linguistic variation in Aristophanic comedy, Andreas Willi opens up a new perspective on intra-dialectal diversity in Classical Attic Greek. A representative range of registers, technical languages, sociolects, and (comic) idiolects is described and analys