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Title Colloquial and literary Latin / edited by Eleanor Dickey and Anna Chahoud
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 515 pages)
Contents Theoretical framework. Introduction / Eleanor Dickey -- Colloquial language in linguistic studies / James Clackson -- Roman authors on colloquial language / Rolando Ferri and Philomen Probert -- Idiom(s) and literariness in classical literary criticism / Anna Chahoud -- Preliminary conclusions / Eleanor Dickey -- Early Latin. Possessive pronouns in Plautus / Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo -- Greeting and farewell expressions as evidence for colloquial language: between literary and epigraphical texts / Paolo Poccetti -- Colloquial and literary language in early Roman tragedy / Hilla Halla-aho and Peter Kruschwitz -- The fragments of Cato's Origines / John Briscoe Classical Latin. Hyperbaton and register in Cicero / J.G.F. Powell -- Notes on the language of Marcus Caelius Rufus / Harm Pinkster -- Syntactic colloquialism in Lucretius / Tobias Reinhardt -- Campaigning for utilitas: style, grammar and philosophy in C. Iulius Caesar / Andreas Willi -- The style of the Bellum Hispaniense and the evolution of Roman historiography / Jan Felix Gaertner -- Grist to the mill: the literary uses of the quotidian in Horace, Satire 1.5 / Richard F. Thomas -- Sermones deorum: divine discourse in Virgil's Aeneid / Stephen J. Harrison -- Early principate. Petronius' linguistic resources / Martti Leiwo -- Parenthetical remarks in the Silvae / Kathleen M. Coleman -- Colloquial Latin in Martial's Epigrams / Nigel M Kay -- Current and ancient colloquial in Gellius / Leofranc Holford-Strevens -- Forerunners of Romance -mente adverbs in Latin prose and poetry / Brigitte L.M. Bauer -- Late Latin. Late sparsa collegimus: the influence of sources on the language of Jordanes / Giovanbattista Galdi -- The tale of Frodebert's Tail / Danuta Shanzer --Colloquial Latin in the insular Latin scholastic colloquia? / Michael Lapidge -- Conversations in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica / Michael Winterbottom
Summary "What is colloquial Latin? What can we learn about it from Roman literature, and how does an understanding of colloquial Latin enhance our appreciation of literature? This book sets out to answer such questions, beginning with examinations of how the term 'colloquial' has been used by linguists and by classicists (and how its Latin equivalents were used by the Romans) and continuing with exciting new research on colloquial language in a wide range of Latin authors. Each chapter is written by a leading expert in the relevant area, and the material presented includes new editions of several texts. The Introduction presents the first account in English of developments in the study of colloquial Latin over the last century, and throughout the book findings are presented in clear, lucid, and jargon-free language, making a major scholarly debate accessible to a broad range of students and non-specialists"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Latin language -- Style
Latin language, Colloquial.
Latin literature -- History and criticism
Speech in literature.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Latin.
Latin language, Colloquial
Latin language -- Style
Latin literature
Speech in literature
Latein
Omgangstaal.
Literaire taal.
Latijn.
Lateinische Sprache -- Umgangssprache.
Latein.
Gesprochene Sprache.
Schriftsprache.
langue parlée -- latin (langue) -- études diverses.
langue parlée -- littérature latine -- style -- études diverses.
Latin.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Dickey, Eleanor.
Chahoud, Anna.
ISBN 9780511776458
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