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Politeness in early Ptolemaic papyri: a frame-based approach
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
This paper deals with the expression of linguistic politeness in early Hellenistic documentary papyrus letters, through a data-oriented approach exploiting the notion of “frame” (cf. terkourafi 2001), which accounts for ...
The (cyclical) path towards impoliteness in electoral debates
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
This work proposes, first, an approach to the agonal character of electoral debates, and then analyses the nature of the acts of (im)politeness that appear in them. From there, it presents a triangular theoretical-methodological ...
How to be impolite in ancient Greek: silencers and dismissals in Greek comedy
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
This paper examines impoliteness in ancient Greek, taking into account the linguistic structure of silencers and dismissals, Their communicative functions and their gender distribution in three comedies by aristophanes. ...
Marked bodies: Skin as communicative entity in late antique hagiography
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2023)
This article analyses the communicative function of the skin. Taking late antique Christian hagiographic texts as a point of departure, the aim is to illustrate the creation of speech codes in Christian communities in the ...
Mythological burlesque, parody, and literary games, from Epicharmus to Aristophanes
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2024)
the literary history of mythological comedy, from epicharmus, the inventor of the genre, to the attic dramatists, is permeated by intertextual relations and cross-references between individual authors. Cratinus took over ...