The Languages of Aristophanes: Aspects of Linguistic Variation in Classical Attic Greek
Andreas Willi
By examining linguistic variation in Aristophanic comedy, Andreas Willi opens up a new perspective on intra-dialectal diversity in Classical Attic Greek. A representative range of registers, technical languages, sociolects, and (comic) idiolects is described and analyzed. Stylistic and statistical observations are combined and supplemented by typological comparisons with material drawn from sociolinguistic research on modern languages. The resulting portrayal of the Attic dialect deepens our understanding of various socio-cultural phenomena reflected in Aristophanes' work.
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Year:
2003
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
361
ISBN 10:
0199215103
ISBN 13:
9780199215102
Series:
Oxford classical monographs
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PDF, 13.98 MB
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english, 2003