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Autore: | Willi Andreas |
Titolo: | The languages of Aristophanes : aspects of linguistic variation in classical Attic Greek / / Andreas Willi |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina: | 822/.01 |
882.01 | |
Soggetto topico: | Language and culture - Greece |
Greek language - Variation | |
Attic Greek dialect | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Languages of Aristophanes |
ISBN: | 1-281-34604-7 |
0-19-153231-2 | |
0-19-151421-7 | |
1-4294-7030-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819175603321 |
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