This paper provides a critical re-examination of a funerary altar (CIL ii 497) from Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain). It explores the strengths and weaknesses of all previous editions of the text from its first publication ...

A threefold inscription scratched on a tile found in the surroundings of Reggio Calabria, dating back to late 2nd century BCe, evidences for insults addressed to slaves employed in a local pottery. Both context and abusive ...

Following the descriptive and methodological framework of Conversation Analysis, this paper analyzes the linguistic strategies employed in order to avoid or prevent dispreferred reactions in interaction, and examines their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...