Historical Politeness Network for Ancient Languages: Online lecture Series (Spring 2021), 2021
In the last years, many contributions in the field of Historical Pragmatics have been devoted to ... more In the last years, many contributions in the field of Historical Pragmatics have been devoted to the im/politeness research in ancient cultures and languages. Much work has been done on the specific forms of expressing im/politeness, and a growing attention is being paid to the cultural specificities both diachronically and synchronically. In the case of ancient Rome, there is room for increasing our understanding of what im/politeness meant for a Latin speaker. I have become interested in particular in the metalanguage of impoliteness. As often in this realm of studies, the Latin language has no perfect match for ‘impolite’. It does have, however, some lexical items referring to manifestations of the negative attitude subsumed under the concept of impoliteness, which provide us with a unique entry to the emic evaluations of linguistic behaviour and interactional practices. In this talk I will present some of the evidence we can collect on the perceptions of Latin speakers reflecting about ways of communicating which are deemed negative, unwelcome, aggressive or simply inappropriate. As a case study I will take the commentaries of the grammarian Donatus (4th CE) to the comedies of Terence (2nd BC), and I will focus on which expressions he evaluates as offensive, and why.
"APPROACHES TO ANCIENT GREEK AND LATIN IM/POLITENESS" is an international conference on advances ... more "APPROACHES TO ANCIENT GREEK AND LATIN IM/POLITENESS" is an international conference on advances and new perspectives in the field of politeness research of the classical languages. It will be held in Madrid (Centro Cultural La Corrala) from 26th to 27th of June 2017. In order to estimate the number of participants, please, register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9cnf97rYiB1MW7Ydn3MutPJpk768lm1MbZl2EiSbbltkQZQ/viewform?c=0&w=1
Recent Trends and Findings in Latin Linguistics Volume I: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics. Volume II: Semantics and Lexicography. Discourse and Dialogue, 2024
This paper intends to analyse conversational behaviour after quarrels in Latin literary texts. Ta... more This paper intends to analyse conversational behaviour after quarrels in Latin literary texts. Taking the quarrels in Roman Comedy, Tragedy, and Novels (3rd-2nd BCE-1st- 2nd CE) as a corpus, this analysis focuses on the consequences of these conflicts from an interactional and linguistic perspective. The items under investigation include the types of conversation that occur after quarrels - whether conflictual or not; its structure - in terms of openings and closings; and the interpersonal relations between the interlocutors who participate in the fight - whether the quarrel changes their former relation, and how. In tackling such questions, Conversational Analysis and im/politeness theories serve to elucidate the use and distribution of the expressions used by the interlocutors. The results of the analysis show that the trends for conflictual interactions differ from those of nonconflictual ones. The type of conversation thus impacts conversational behaviours and expectations. This suggests that the conception of standards according to the type of conversation reflects a more accurate grasp of the reality reflected in the texts.
This chapter investigates impoliteness in subliterary texts, namely in bilingual teaching materia... more This chapter investigates impoliteness in subliterary texts, namely in bilingual teaching material for learning languages. It takes the Colloquium Harleianum, one of the conversation manuals in the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana (second to third century CE) as a corpus. Both impoliteness forms and their evaluations from culture-internal speakers are studied. The impoliteness forms, the metalanguage and the metapragmatic comments on the quarrel represented in this corpus are compared with quarrels represented in literary texts, mainly Roman Comedy (second to third century BCE) and the novel (second cetury CE). It relies on metapragmatic comments as the main entry to the emic evaluations of impoliteness forms and of offences present in the corpus. In this way, the chapter provides a diachronic perspective on ancient impoliteness in Latin by taking into account both literary and subliterary evidence. By dealing with teaching manuals, it offers a unique contribution on pragmatic competence for non-native speakers, and insights on the etiquette norms for the elite, which is the perspective that the evidences in the corpus reflect.
Die italienischsprachige Studie analysiert die privaten Streithandlungen in literarischen lateini... more Die italienischsprachige Studie analysiert die privaten Streithandlungen in literarischen lateinischen Texten. Durch die Analyse der Reprasentationen des Streites sowie der Reaktionen der Beteiligten und Betroffenen werden die linguistischen Eigenheiten des Streitgeschehens dargelegt. Auf diese Weise beleuchtet die Autorin den zugrundeliegenden, zeitgenossischen Kulturcode und umreist die Verhaltensweisen im Streit. Sie folgt dabei den Impoliteness Theorien Jonathan Culpepers. Daher kommt der Untersuchung interner Hinweise auf die Wahrnehmung der jeweiligen Streitsituation eine besondere Bedeutung zu.
Linguisticae Dissertationes. Current Perspectives on Latin Grammar, Lexicon and Pragmatics. Selected Papers from the 20th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, June 17-21, 2019), Madrid, Ediciones Clasícas, 2021, 689-702., 2021
This paper intends to study the management of Common Ground (CG) in the dialogues of Roman traged... more This paper intends to study the management of Common Ground (CG) in the dialogues of Roman tragedies. It focuses on dialogues in which the speakers cannot understand each other and explores the role which CG plays in communications fraught with such difficulties. Corpus for this case study is taken from tragic dialogues, as tragedy deals with difficulties which mostly do not get resolved, with contrasts which cannot be agreed upon: this literary genre convention is a promising source of examples for a research focussing on problems in handling communications. Many scholars have worked on CG and linguistic anchoring phenomena in Latin, but relatively scarce attention has been paid to CG in non-standard situations and the role that it has in assuring success or failure of communication. This paper aims to be a first step in this direction.
in E. Sanders and M. Johncock, Emotion and Persuasion in Classical Antiquity (Stuttgart: Franz St... more in E. Sanders and M. Johncock, Emotion and Persuasion in Classical Antiquity (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag)
Lemmata Linguistica Latina Volume II Clause and Discourse, 2019
This chapter studies conflictual communications in Latin literary texts. It focuses on impolite a... more This chapter studies conflictual communications in Latin literary texts. It focuses on impolite and overpolite expressions in confrontations, as two different but related linguistic resources displayed in conflict. Taking the comedies of Plautus and Terence as a corpus, the chapter shows how power is reflected in speakers’ choices, when they are involved in face-attack interactions. Donatus’ commentaries are used as source for metapragmatic comments, in order to elucidate ancient evaluation on im/polite phenomena.
Il presente lavoro ha come oggetto un tipo di conversazione, la lite, in un genere letterario, la... more Il presente lavoro ha come oggetto un tipo di conversazione, la lite, in un genere letterario, la tragedia romana, e ne offre un'analisi pragmatica. Partendo da una definizione del tipo di conversazione oggetto di studio, si applica alle attestazioni reperite nel corpus scelto l'approccio maturato entro il settore degli studi sull'im/politeness. Le osservazioni risultanti vengono messe a confronto con le tendenze rilevate in un precedente studio sulle liti nella commedia e nel romanzo latini, mettendo in luce convergenze e differenze. This paper offers a pragmatic analysis of quarrels in Roman Tragedy. Its aim is to study this kind of conflictual interactions from a pragmatic perspective , and to compare tragic quarrels with quarrels in Roman Comedy and Novel, object of a previous study. The theoretical approach situated in the realm of im/politeness theories allows to describe the linguistic forms used in quarrels, and provides a coherent framework to study impoliteness in Latin, delineating patterns of behaviour through different literary genres across a wide time span. This paper offers a further step in this direction. Cómo citar este artículo / Citation: Iurescia, Federica 2019: «Litigare in tragedia: per una pragmatica del conflitto», Emerita 87 (2), pp. 255-283.
in E. Sanders and M. Johncock, Emotion and Persuasion in Classical Antiquity (Stuttgart: Franz St... more in E. Sanders and M. Johncock, Emotion and Persuasion in Classical Antiquity (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag)
Die italienischsprachige Studie analysiert die privaten Streithandlungen in literarischen lateini... more Die italienischsprachige Studie analysiert die privaten Streithandlungen in literarischen lateinischen Texten. Durch die Analyse der Reprasentationen des Streites sowie der Reaktionen der Beteiligten und Betroffenen werden die linguistischen Eigenheiten des Streitgeschehens dargelegt. Auf diese Weise beleuchtet die Autorin den zugrundeliegenden, zeitgenossischen Kulturcode und umreist die Verhaltensweisen im Streit. Sie folgt dabei den Impoliteness Theorien Jonathan Culpepers. Daher kommt der Untersuchung interner Hinweise auf die Wahrnehmung der jeweiligen Streitsituation eine besondere Bedeutung zu.
Historical Politeness Network for Ancient Languages: Online lecture Series (Spring 2021), 2021
In the last years, many contributions in the field of Historical Pragmatics have been devoted to ... more In the last years, many contributions in the field of Historical Pragmatics have been devoted to the im/politeness research in ancient cultures and languages. Much work has been done on the specific forms of expressing im/politeness, and a growing attention is being paid to the cultural specificities both diachronically and synchronically. In the case of ancient Rome, there is room for increasing our understanding of what im/politeness meant for a Latin speaker. I have become interested in particular in the metalanguage of impoliteness. As often in this realm of studies, the Latin language has no perfect match for ‘impolite’. It does have, however, some lexical items referring to manifestations of the negative attitude subsumed under the concept of impoliteness, which provide us with a unique entry to the emic evaluations of linguistic behaviour and interactional practices. In this talk I will present some of the evidence we can collect on the perceptions of Latin speakers reflecting about ways of communicating which are deemed negative, unwelcome, aggressive or simply inappropriate. As a case study I will take the commentaries of the grammarian Donatus (4th CE) to the comedies of Terence (2nd BC), and I will focus on which expressions he evaluates as offensive, and why.
"APPROACHES TO ANCIENT GREEK AND LATIN IM/POLITENESS" is an international conference on advances ... more "APPROACHES TO ANCIENT GREEK AND LATIN IM/POLITENESS" is an international conference on advances and new perspectives in the field of politeness research of the classical languages. It will be held in Madrid (Centro Cultural La Corrala) from 26th to 27th of June 2017. In order to estimate the number of participants, please, register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9cnf97rYiB1MW7Ydn3MutPJpk768lm1MbZl2EiSbbltkQZQ/viewform?c=0&w=1
Recent Trends and Findings in Latin Linguistics Volume I: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics. Volume II: Semantics and Lexicography. Discourse and Dialogue, 2024
This paper intends to analyse conversational behaviour after quarrels in Latin literary texts. Ta... more This paper intends to analyse conversational behaviour after quarrels in Latin literary texts. Taking the quarrels in Roman Comedy, Tragedy, and Novels (3rd-2nd BCE-1st- 2nd CE) as a corpus, this analysis focuses on the consequences of these conflicts from an interactional and linguistic perspective. The items under investigation include the types of conversation that occur after quarrels - whether conflictual or not; its structure - in terms of openings and closings; and the interpersonal relations between the interlocutors who participate in the fight - whether the quarrel changes their former relation, and how. In tackling such questions, Conversational Analysis and im/politeness theories serve to elucidate the use and distribution of the expressions used by the interlocutors. The results of the analysis show that the trends for conflictual interactions differ from those of nonconflictual ones. The type of conversation thus impacts conversational behaviours and expectations. This suggests that the conception of standards according to the type of conversation reflects a more accurate grasp of the reality reflected in the texts.
This chapter investigates impoliteness in subliterary texts, namely in bilingual teaching materia... more This chapter investigates impoliteness in subliterary texts, namely in bilingual teaching material for learning languages. It takes the Colloquium Harleianum, one of the conversation manuals in the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana (second to third century CE) as a corpus. Both impoliteness forms and their evaluations from culture-internal speakers are studied. The impoliteness forms, the metalanguage and the metapragmatic comments on the quarrel represented in this corpus are compared with quarrels represented in literary texts, mainly Roman Comedy (second to third century BCE) and the novel (second cetury CE). It relies on metapragmatic comments as the main entry to the emic evaluations of impoliteness forms and of offences present in the corpus. In this way, the chapter provides a diachronic perspective on ancient impoliteness in Latin by taking into account both literary and subliterary evidence. By dealing with teaching manuals, it offers a unique contribution on pragmatic competence for non-native speakers, and insights on the etiquette norms for the elite, which is the perspective that the evidences in the corpus reflect.
Die italienischsprachige Studie analysiert die privaten Streithandlungen in literarischen lateini... more Die italienischsprachige Studie analysiert die privaten Streithandlungen in literarischen lateinischen Texten. Durch die Analyse der Reprasentationen des Streites sowie der Reaktionen der Beteiligten und Betroffenen werden die linguistischen Eigenheiten des Streitgeschehens dargelegt. Auf diese Weise beleuchtet die Autorin den zugrundeliegenden, zeitgenossischen Kulturcode und umreist die Verhaltensweisen im Streit. Sie folgt dabei den Impoliteness Theorien Jonathan Culpepers. Daher kommt der Untersuchung interner Hinweise auf die Wahrnehmung der jeweiligen Streitsituation eine besondere Bedeutung zu.
Linguisticae Dissertationes. Current Perspectives on Latin Grammar, Lexicon and Pragmatics. Selected Papers from the 20th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, June 17-21, 2019), Madrid, Ediciones Clasícas, 2021, 689-702., 2021
This paper intends to study the management of Common Ground (CG) in the dialogues of Roman traged... more This paper intends to study the management of Common Ground (CG) in the dialogues of Roman tragedies. It focuses on dialogues in which the speakers cannot understand each other and explores the role which CG plays in communications fraught with such difficulties. Corpus for this case study is taken from tragic dialogues, as tragedy deals with difficulties which mostly do not get resolved, with contrasts which cannot be agreed upon: this literary genre convention is a promising source of examples for a research focussing on problems in handling communications. Many scholars have worked on CG and linguistic anchoring phenomena in Latin, but relatively scarce attention has been paid to CG in non-standard situations and the role that it has in assuring success or failure of communication. This paper aims to be a first step in this direction.
in E. Sanders and M. Johncock, Emotion and Persuasion in Classical Antiquity (Stuttgart: Franz St... more in E. Sanders and M. Johncock, Emotion and Persuasion in Classical Antiquity (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag)
Lemmata Linguistica Latina Volume II Clause and Discourse, 2019
This chapter studies conflictual communications in Latin literary texts. It focuses on impolite a... more This chapter studies conflictual communications in Latin literary texts. It focuses on impolite and overpolite expressions in confrontations, as two different but related linguistic resources displayed in conflict. Taking the comedies of Plautus and Terence as a corpus, the chapter shows how power is reflected in speakers’ choices, when they are involved in face-attack interactions. Donatus’ commentaries are used as source for metapragmatic comments, in order to elucidate ancient evaluation on im/polite phenomena.
Il presente lavoro ha come oggetto un tipo di conversazione, la lite, in un genere letterario, la... more Il presente lavoro ha come oggetto un tipo di conversazione, la lite, in un genere letterario, la tragedia romana, e ne offre un'analisi pragmatica. Partendo da una definizione del tipo di conversazione oggetto di studio, si applica alle attestazioni reperite nel corpus scelto l'approccio maturato entro il settore degli studi sull'im/politeness. Le osservazioni risultanti vengono messe a confronto con le tendenze rilevate in un precedente studio sulle liti nella commedia e nel romanzo latini, mettendo in luce convergenze e differenze. This paper offers a pragmatic analysis of quarrels in Roman Tragedy. Its aim is to study this kind of conflictual interactions from a pragmatic perspective , and to compare tragic quarrels with quarrels in Roman Comedy and Novel, object of a previous study. The theoretical approach situated in the realm of im/politeness theories allows to describe the linguistic forms used in quarrels, and provides a coherent framework to study impoliteness in Latin, delineating patterns of behaviour through different literary genres across a wide time span. This paper offers a further step in this direction. Cómo citar este artículo / Citation: Iurescia, Federica 2019: «Litigare in tragedia: per una pragmatica del conflitto», Emerita 87 (2), pp. 255-283.
in E. Sanders and M. Johncock, Emotion and Persuasion in Classical Antiquity (Stuttgart: Franz St... more in E. Sanders and M. Johncock, Emotion and Persuasion in Classical Antiquity (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag)
Die italienischsprachige Studie analysiert die privaten Streithandlungen in literarischen lateini... more Die italienischsprachige Studie analysiert die privaten Streithandlungen in literarischen lateinischen Texten. Durch die Analyse der Reprasentationen des Streites sowie der Reaktionen der Beteiligten und Betroffenen werden die linguistischen Eigenheiten des Streitgeschehens dargelegt. Auf diese Weise beleuchtet die Autorin den zugrundeliegenden, zeitgenossischen Kulturcode und umreist die Verhaltensweisen im Streit. Sie folgt dabei den Impoliteness Theorien Jonathan Culpepers. Daher kommt der Untersuchung interner Hinweise auf die Wahrnehmung der jeweiligen Streitsituation eine besondere Bedeutung zu.
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This paper offers a pragmatic analysis of quarrels in Roman Tragedy. Its aim is to study this kind of conflictual interactions from a pragmatic perspective , and to compare tragic quarrels with quarrels in Roman Comedy and Novel, object of a previous study. The theoretical approach situated in the realm of im/politeness theories allows to describe the linguistic forms used in quarrels, and provides a coherent framework to study impoliteness in Latin, delineating patterns of behaviour through different literary genres across a wide time span. This paper offers a further step in this direction.
Cómo citar este artículo / Citation: Iurescia, Federica 2019: «Litigare in tragedia: per una pragmatica del conflitto», Emerita 87 (2), pp. 255-283.
This paper offers a pragmatic analysis of quarrels in Roman Tragedy. Its aim is to study this kind of conflictual interactions from a pragmatic perspective , and to compare tragic quarrels with quarrels in Roman Comedy and Novel, object of a previous study. The theoretical approach situated in the realm of im/politeness theories allows to describe the linguistic forms used in quarrels, and provides a coherent framework to study impoliteness in Latin, delineating patterns of behaviour through different literary genres across a wide time span. This paper offers a further step in this direction.
Cómo citar este artículo / Citation: Iurescia, Federica 2019: «Litigare in tragedia: per una pragmatica del conflitto», Emerita 87 (2), pp. 255-283.