Politeness in Ancient Greek and Latin Unceta Gmez Luis
Politeness in Ancient Greek and Latin Unceta Gmez Luis Politeness serves to manage social relations or is wielded as an instrument of power. This is the first book to bring together the most recent…
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Politeness in Ancient Greek and Latin Unceta Gmez Luis
Politeness serves to manage social relations or is wielded as an instrument of power. This is the first book to bring together the most recent scholarship on politeness and impoliteness in Ancient Greek and Latin, signalling both its universal and its culture-specific traits. Through good manners, people demonstrate their educational background and social rank.
A wide range of interdisciplinary approaches is adopted, namely pragmatics, conversation analysis, and computational linguistics. Leading scholars analyse texts by canonical classical authors (including Plato, Cicero, Euripides, and Plautus), as well as non-literary sources, to provide glimpses into the courtesy and rudeness of Greek and Latin speakers. With its extensive introduction, the volume introduces readers to one of the most dynamic fields of Linguistics, while demonstrating that it can serve as an innovative tool in
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