TY - BOOK AU - Martin,Gunther AU - Iurescia,Federica AU - Hof,Severin AU - Sorrentino,Giada ED - Doing Things with Words on Stage: Pragmatics and its Use in Ancient Drama (Conference) TI - Pragmatic approaches to drama: studies in communication on the ancient stage T2 - The language of classical literature, SN - 9789004440197 AV - PA3026 U1 - 882.009 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Classical drama KW - History and criticism KW - Congresses KW - Language and languages in literature KW - Theater KW - Greece KW - History KW - To 500 KW - Rome KW - Pragmatics KW - Interpersonal communication KW - Rhetoric, Ancient KW - Speech acts (Linguistics) KW - proceedings (reports) KW - aat KW - Conference papers and proceedings KW - fast KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - lcgft KW - Actes de congrès KW - rvmgf N1 - Selected papers from a conference entitled, Doing Things with Words on Stage: Pragmatics and its Use in Ancient Drama, which was held at the University of Zurich from 4th to 7th July, 2018; Includes bibliographical references and indexes N2 - "This volume collects papers on pragmatic perspectives on ancient theatre. Scholars working on literature, linguistics, and theatre will find interesting insights on verbal and non-verbal uses of language in ancient Greek and Roman Drama. Comedies and Tragedies spanning from 5th B.C.E. to 1st C.E. are investigated in terms of im/politeness, theory of mind, interpersonal pragmatics, and body language, to name some of the approaches which afford new interpretations of difficult textual passages or shed new light into nuances of characterisation, or possibilities of performance. Words, silence, gestures, do things, all the more so in dramatic dialogues on stage"-- UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68063 ER -