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Orality and Performance in Classical Attic Prose - A Linguistic Approach (Hardcover)
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Orality and Performance in Classical Attic Prose - A Linguistic Approach (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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This study discusses the question of whether there is a linguistic
difference between classical Attic prose texts intended for public
oral delivery and those intended for written circulation and
private performance. Identifying such a difference which
exclusively reflects these disparities in modes of reception has
proven to be a difficult challenge for both literary scholars and
cultural historians of the ancient world, with answers not always
satisfactory from a methodological and an analytical point of view.
The legitimacy of the question is first addressed through a
definition of what such slippery notions as 'orality' and 'oral
performance' mean in the context of classical Athens,
reconstruction of the situations in which the extant prose texts
were meant to be received, and an explanation of the grounds on
which we may expect linguistic features of the texts to be related
to such situations. The idea that texts conceived for public
delivery needed to be as clear as possible is substantiated by
available cultural-historical and anthropological facts; however,
these do not imply that the opposite was required of texts
conceived for private reception. In establishing a rigorous
methodology for the reconstruction of the native perception of
clarity in the original contexts of textual reception this study
offers a novel approach to assessing orality in classical Greek
prose through examination of linguistic and grammatical features of
style. It builds upon the theoretical insights and current
experimental findings of modern psycholinguistics, providing
scholars with a new key to the minds of ancient writers and
audiences.
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