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Imperatives and Other Directive Expressions in Latin: A Study in the Pragmatics of a Dead Language
Contributor(s): Risselada, Rodie (Author)

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 ISBN: 9050632068     ISBN-13: 9789050632065
Publisher: Brill
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1993
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical
- Foreign Language Study | Latin
- Literary Criticism | Medieval
Dewey: 475
LCCN: 94134889
Series: Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.5" W x 9.5" L (1.90 lbs) 362 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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As the recent hausse in pragmatic studies shows, linguistic attention is increasingly focussing on aspects of language use. Making use of recent insights developed within speech act theory, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics, this book deals with the various expressions that were used in Latin to per-form so-called directive speech acts, i.e. orders, requests, advice, proposals, sug-gestions, etc. On the basis of a large corpus of comedy, correspondence, and instruction texts the expressions concerned (imperatives, subjunctives, future indicatives, as well as modal expressions and vari-ous other lexical expressions of directivity) are investigated against the background of the verbal interactions in which they typically occur. As regards its contribution to Latin linguistics, the present study adds a number of re-finements to our knowledge of this well-documented lan-guage, for instance with respect to the reference of the subjects of the so-called impera-tive II ending in -to, the conventionalized speech act functions of interrogative quid and quin directives, and the diachronic process of conventionalization of velim requests.
 
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