What is it about?
This paper deals with personal pronouns pragmatic use in Ancient Greek comedy. The work shows how male characters use more 1° person singular pronoun "I, me", whereas female characters prefer plural pronouns like "we, us". Moreover, personal pronouns can be used in a pragmatic way, to show the affiliation within characters or to emphasize a contrast among them. These results are similar to what we know of personal pronouns' use in other (modern) languages (e.g., Spanish, English, etc.).
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Why is it important?
This is the first work to investigate pragmatic use of Ancient Greek personal pronouns. Giving that Ancient Greek survives only in written text, it is important to highlight many similarities with other modern languages in pragmatic use of small discourse particles such personal pronouns.
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This article was the final outcome of a long work started with my BA and MA thesis. It was a great pleasure to compare my data in Ancient Greek with data of other authors working on pragmatics of modern languages. I hope you find this article interesting and that it inspires you to read ancient texts from a different perspective.
Dr Chiara Meluzzi
University of Pavia
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This page is a summary of: Pragmatic use of ancient greek pronouns in two communicative frameworks, Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), July 2022, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/prag.26.3.05meh.
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