Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse

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Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse

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Seen on the UK Classics list today:

Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse: Exploring Particle Use Across Genres
by Anna Bonifazi, Annemieke Drummen, Mark de Kreij

Publication date: 19.10.2021
Publisher: Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC; distributed by Harvard University Press
Paperback: ISBN: 9780674271296
Pages: 976
Price: $37.95 • £30.95 • €34.00
Purchase/order via Harvard University Press: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php ... 0674271296

Authors' Note:
This is the print version of a freely accessible online edition published in 2016; see:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebook: ... ourse.2016
Since 2016, the authors incorporated updates in the research chapters, and completed the online-only part of the work, the Online Repository of Particle Studies (ORPS; see (http://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HLNC:CHS.O ... le_Studies, completely searchable).The print version encompasses all the research chapters (Parts I to IV) in one tome. Only the print edition contains the Index of Subjects, conceived as a repertoire of recurring descriptions and linguistics topics that have informed and oriented the authors' research. The online edition compensates for that by allowing readers to search for any term anywhere. At the time of printing, the body texts of the online and print edition are identical. The numbering of parts, chapters, and paragraphs completely coincides, for ease of reference. Both editions include the bibliography incorporating all full references, including those of ORPS.

Abstract:
Particles are pervasive in Ancient Greek. Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse (PAGD) offers new tools for making sense of these words, through an analysis of particle use across five genres of ancient Greek discourse: epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, and historiography. The research explores multiple discourse phenomena that influence the force of particles and particle combinations. The work has meta-scientific, theoretical, and analytic goals. Meta-scientifically, the authors aim to reveal a wealth of particle studies covering more than two millennia of research up to the present. On the theoretical level, by taking stock of current work on particles - both within and beyond ancient Greek - they aim to raise awareness of dimensions of language besides the syntactic organization of texts and the semantics of their content. Analytically, they intend to study particles in situ, within their co-text (co-occurring verbal features) and context, in order to identify and explain patterns of particle use. The ultimate goal is to make readers look at ancient Greek particles, and through them at ancient Greek literature, with fresh eyes. The tome includes the analysis of 461 passages, consistently accompanied by English translations. The comments offer plenty of grammatical explanations, and often challenge traditional readings and labels. This is meant to draw the attention of philologists, commentators, teachers, and scholars of ancient Greek to the ways in which language phenomena can illuminate literary meanings. Through the discussion of ancient Greek instances, the book can also be seen as a contribution to general topics in discourse analysis and pragmatics such as anaphoric comprehension, dialogic syntax, discourse acts and moves, Conversation Analysis, stancetaking, segmentation, and coordination, besides, of course, discourse particles.
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