By employing recent work done in the discipline of Pragmatics (Historical Pragmatics; (Im)politeness studies), this paper aims to sketch out a typology and a description of the dynamics of verbal abuse in Homer. The metalanguage of verbal abuse, that is, how the narrator and the characters of the poems ‘talk about’ and categorize this phenomenon, will also be analyzed.
The Pragmatics of Verbal Abuse in Homer / Lentini, Giuseppe. - In: CLASSICS@. - ISSN 2327-2996. - ELETTRONICO. - 11:(2013).
The Pragmatics of Verbal Abuse in Homer
LENTINI, GIUSEPPE
2013
Abstract
By employing recent work done in the discipline of Pragmatics (Historical Pragmatics; (Im)politeness studies), this paper aims to sketch out a typology and a description of the dynamics of verbal abuse in Homer. The metalanguage of verbal abuse, that is, how the narrator and the characters of the poems ‘talk about’ and categorize this phenomenon, will also be analyzed.File allegati a questo prodotto
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