Language and character in Euripides' Electra

Language and character in Euripides' Electra / Evert van Emde Boas.

This study of Euripides' Electra approaches the play through the lens of modern linguistics. A variety of modern linguistics theories (conversation analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics (on gender and politeness), paroemiology, and discourse studies) are introduced and then applied to the text...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Emde Boas, Evert van, 1982- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Series:Oxford classical monographs.
Subjects:
Euripides. > Electra.
Euripides > Characters.
Euripides
Electra (Euripides)
DRAMA > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Characters and characteristics
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Modern linguistics and Euripides' Electra
  • Rustic language : The peasant
  • Constancy amid change : The linguistic characterization of Electra
  • Orestes' linguistic (dis)guises
  • Redrawing the lines : pragmatics and gender in textual criticism
  • A tense affair: The Messenger Speech
  • The language of rhetoric : The Agōn revisited
  • Conclusion: Approaching tragic language.

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