The speech act of requests in ancient greek tragedy: a comparative research in historical pragmatics
Abstract
The present study aims to investigate, analyze and interpret the realization patterns of requests used in Ancient Greece during the 5th century BCE according to the empirical field of historical pragmatics. The speech act in question has been analyzed following Brown and Levinson’s (1987) politeness theory. The data for the study were collected from selected ancient Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides focusing on their pragmatic structures and the dialogues contained in them. These classical dramas have been frequently studied, performed and translated around the world. Therefore, it is very essential to approach and understand the original texts as carefully as possible. This task includes selecting the most proper, faithful, representative translations in modern Greek language and analyzing them alongside the past texts, in order to detect and categorize the linguistic choices made by different speakers with regard to the speech act of requests. To do so, we ...
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