Quarrels in Roman tragedy: impoliteness in conflict
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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2019.12.1914Keywords:
Seneca, Tragedy, Quarrel, Pragmatics, ImpolitenessAbstract
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.
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