Language and character in Euripides' Electra

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Cover Language and Character in Euripides´ Electra Copyright Dedication Preface Table of Contents List of Figures A Note on Citations, Abbreviations, and Cross-referencing Introduction: Modern Linguistics and Euripides´ Electra 1. Aims, approaches, outline 1.1. Reading, linguistically 1.2. Outline of the book 2. Linguistic approaches 2.1. Introduction: Bauformen and text types 2.2. Conversation analysis 2.3. Pragmatics 2.3.1. Speech acts 2.3.2. (Neo-)Gricean theories of meaning 2.4. Sociolinguistics 2.4.1. Gender 2.4.2. Politeness and power 2.5. Gnomic utterances in context: some aspects of modern paroemiology 2.6. Narrative and argumentative texts: discourse cohesion 3. Textual criticism 4. A view of the play 4.1. Characters and characterization 4.1.1. Conceptualization; characterization through style 4.1.2. Electra and Orestes 4.2. Themes and motifs 4.3. Tradition (and the recognition scene) 4.4. The roads not taken . . . I: Rustic Language: The Peasant 1. Introduction 2. A peasant´s tale (1-53) 3. Husband and wife (54-81, 341-63, 404-31) 3.1. A marriage under face threat 3.2. Getting water (54-81) 3.3. Welcoming guests (341-63) 3.4. Preparing food (404-31) 4. Further stylistic points; conclusion II: Constancy amid Change: The Linguistic Characterization of Electra 1. Introduction 2. Resistance through lament: the early scenes (54-81, 112-214) 2.1. Electra as mourner 2.2. Electra as wife 2.3. Electra as Argive `maiden´ 2.4. The characterization of Electra 2.4.1. Patterns of miscommunication 2.4.2. Electra´s character: the debate 3. Electra and her unexpected guest (215-338) 3.1. The stichomythia (215-89) 3.2. The `message´ (300-38) 4. Recognition and planning (487-698) 5. Electra, Aegisthus, and Clytemnestra 5.1. A play of halves? 5.2. The `kakology´ (907-56) 5.2.1. Electra´s `undramatic´ generalizations 5.2.2. Analysis of the speech 5.3. `Into the boudoir´: Electra and Clytemnestra (998-1146) 5.3.1. Opening exchanges (998-1010) 5.3.2. Clytemnestra´s speech (1011-50) 5.3.3. Parrhēsia (1055-9) 5.3.4. Electra´s speech (1060-99) 5.3.5. Mother and daughter (1102-46) 6. Exodos 6.1. The kommos (1177-232) 6.2. The deus ex machina (1233-358) III: Orestes´ Linguistic (Dis)guises 1. Introduction 2. Orestes incognito 2.1. Initial observations 2.2. The general reflections 2.2.1. `A man in exile is powerless´ (236) 2.2.2. Pity and intelligence (290-6) 2.2.3. Evaluating character (367-400) 2.3. The second disguise (774-858) 3. Conclusion IV: Redrawing the Lines: Pragmatics and Gender in Textual Criticism 1. Introduction 1.1. Vexed passages 1.2. L and P 2. Divided (?) we pray (671-84) 3. The hesitation scene (959-87) 3.1. On giving orders and having fashion sense (959-66) 3.2. Diverging minds (967-87) 4. Conclusion V: A Tense Affair: The Messenger Speech 1. Introduction 2. Not `what?´ but `how?´ 3. Analysis of the narrative 3.1. Setting the scene (774-8) 3.2. `A deliciously protracted game of cat and mouse´ (779-97) 3.3. A moment for prayer (798-810) 3.4. The sacrifice of Aegisthus (810-43) 3.5. Aftermath and resolution (844-55, 855-7, 857-8) 3.6. Evaluation 4. Conclusion VI: The Language of Rhetoric: The agon Revisited 1. Introduction 2. Exordium 2.1. Clytemnestra 2.2. Electra 3. Narratio 3.1. Clytemnestra 3.2. Electra 4. Argumentatio 4.1. Generalizations 4.2. Clytemnestra´s hypotheticals 4.3. Rhetoric and characterization 5. Peroratio 5.1. Clytemnestra 5.2. Electra 6. Peroratio (II) Conclusion: Approaching Tragic Language Glossary of Linguistic Terms Bibliography Index Locorum Subject Index Index of Greek Words