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Autore |
Willi Andreas |
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Titolo |
The languages of Aristophanes : aspects of linguistic variation in classical Attic Greek / / Andreas Willi |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-34604-7 |
0-19-153231-2 |
0-19-151421-7 |
1-4294-7030-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford classical monographs |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Language and culture - Greece |
Greek language - Variation |
Attic Greek dialect |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally presented as the author's doctoral thesis. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-304) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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