Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
Reihe: Oxford Classical Monographs
A Linguistic Approach
Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
Reihe: Oxford Classical Monographs
ISBN: 978-0-19-879590-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
methodological and an analytical point of view.
The legitimacy of the question is first addressed through a definition of what such slippery notions as 'orality' and 'oral performance' mean in the context of classical Athens, reconstruction of the situations in which the extant prose texts were meant to be received, and an explanation of the grounds on which we may expect linguistic features of the texts to be related to such situations. The idea that texts conceived for public delivery needed to be as clear as possible is substantiated by
available cultural-historical and anthropological facts; however, these do not imply that the opposite was required of texts conceived for private reception. In establishing a rigorous methodology for the reconstruction of the native perception of clarity in the original contexts of textual reception
this study offers a novel approach to assessing orality in classical Greek prose through examination of linguistic and grammatical features of style. It builds upon the theoretical insights and current experimental findings of modern psycholinguistics, providing scholars with a new key to the minds of ancient writers and audiences.