Progression thématique et types de séquences chez quelques historiens romains
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Sándor Kiss
Abstract
The aim of the article is to show that in Latin historiographic works, text units (above the level of the sentence) can be delimited on a purely linguistic basis. For this analysis, two methods are proposed: indication of breaking points (discourse particles, metalinguistic remarks, and sudden syntactic and lexical modifications observable in the text) and indication of marks of cohesion between units (hyperthemes governing successive units, hints for a global arrangement of the components, and a network of cross-references in the text). More or less autonomous sequences characterized by their linguistic peculiarities and their boundaries are labelled as textemes (term proposed by W. A. Koch: From Morpheme to Texteme, Hildesheim, 1969). The structure of the texteme and the constituent order of the sentence influence each other, according to the needs of communicative perspective. The nature of the textemes is an important stylistic feature in historiographic works. The examples for the demonstration have been drawn from the texts of Caesar, Sallust, Velleius Paterculus, Florus, and Eutropius. Each of these authors has a particular relation with history and his own method for the presentation of facts. Text linguistics offers a possibility for an objective approach to such differences.
Abstract
The aim of the article is to show that in Latin historiographic works, text units (above the level of the sentence) can be delimited on a purely linguistic basis. For this analysis, two methods are proposed: indication of breaking points (discourse particles, metalinguistic remarks, and sudden syntactic and lexical modifications observable in the text) and indication of marks of cohesion between units (hyperthemes governing successive units, hints for a global arrangement of the components, and a network of cross-references in the text). More or less autonomous sequences characterized by their linguistic peculiarities and their boundaries are labelled as textemes (term proposed by W. A. Koch: From Morpheme to Texteme, Hildesheim, 1969). The structure of the texteme and the constituent order of the sentence influence each other, according to the needs of communicative perspective. The nature of the textemes is an important stylistic feature in historiographic works. The examples for the demonstration have been drawn from the texts of Caesar, Sallust, Velleius Paterculus, Florus, and Eutropius. Each of these authors has a particular relation with history and his own method for the presentation of facts. Text linguistics offers a possibility for an objective approach to such differences.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents VII
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Clause
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Constructions
- Linguistic theory in daily lexicographical practice: dealing with arguments and satellites in the entries of regnare and nectere in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae 1
- The expression of knowledge in Latin: cognosco, nosco, scio, nescio and ignoro 20
- Los verbos latinos timeo y metuo: sintaxis, semántica y pragmática 48
- Potest + passive infinitives: auxiliary or impersonal verb? 67
- Ruinam dare : les complexités d’une construction latine à verbe support 79
- On the use of the ablative of the gerund and the nominative of the present participle in Latin technical literature 96
- Praedicativum and subject complement: a question revisited in light of the Latin verb sto 116
- Der lateinische Dativ: neue Wege in Transitivität und funktionaler Semantik 134
- Between syntax and magic: some peculiarities of nominal syntax in Latin curse tablets 155
- Les complétives en quoniam : étude à partir du latin biblique 174
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Semantics
- Animacy in Latin: explaining some peripheral phenomena 199
- Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres: Sapir’s typology and different perspectives on totality 219
- General extenders in Latin 241
- Les parcours sémantiques vers l’adversatif : une approche typologique des langues anciennes 259
- The diffraction of iam: contextual effects in interpretation 280
- Le système latin de la déixis et de l’endophore : l’évolution linguistique chez Sénèque 296
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Discourse
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Tense and discourse
- On the expression of relative time in Latin narrations 319
- Progression thématique et types de séquences chez quelques historiens romains 339
- Engaging the audience: an intersubjectivity approach to the historic present tense in Latin 351
- ‘I hereby present the use of the Latin first-person perfect indicative as a performative’ 374
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Politeness and identity
- Expressing happiness as a manifestation of positive politeness in Roman comedy 393
- Impoliteness in Plautus’ comedies 413
- How to assess politeness in response to impoliteness: some examples from Latin comedy 431
- Cicero vs. Mark Antony: identity construction and ingroup/outgroup formation in Philippics One and Three 448
- Ego sum Amphitruo: Selbstidentifikation in der römischen Komödie 464
- Index 479
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents VII
-
Clause
-
Constructions
- Linguistic theory in daily lexicographical practice: dealing with arguments and satellites in the entries of regnare and nectere in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae 1
- The expression of knowledge in Latin: cognosco, nosco, scio, nescio and ignoro 20
- Los verbos latinos timeo y metuo: sintaxis, semántica y pragmática 48
- Potest + passive infinitives: auxiliary or impersonal verb? 67
- Ruinam dare : les complexités d’une construction latine à verbe support 79
- On the use of the ablative of the gerund and the nominative of the present participle in Latin technical literature 96
- Praedicativum and subject complement: a question revisited in light of the Latin verb sto 116
- Der lateinische Dativ: neue Wege in Transitivität und funktionaler Semantik 134
- Between syntax and magic: some peculiarities of nominal syntax in Latin curse tablets 155
- Les complétives en quoniam : étude à partir du latin biblique 174
-
Semantics
- Animacy in Latin: explaining some peripheral phenomena 199
- Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres: Sapir’s typology and different perspectives on totality 219
- General extenders in Latin 241
- Les parcours sémantiques vers l’adversatif : une approche typologique des langues anciennes 259
- The diffraction of iam: contextual effects in interpretation 280
- Le système latin de la déixis et de l’endophore : l’évolution linguistique chez Sénèque 296
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Discourse
-
Tense and discourse
- On the expression of relative time in Latin narrations 319
- Progression thématique et types de séquences chez quelques historiens romains 339
- Engaging the audience: an intersubjectivity approach to the historic present tense in Latin 351
- ‘I hereby present the use of the Latin first-person perfect indicative as a performative’ 374
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Politeness and identity
- Expressing happiness as a manifestation of positive politeness in Roman comedy 393
- Impoliteness in Plautus’ comedies 413
- How to assess politeness in response to impoliteness: some examples from Latin comedy 431
- Cicero vs. Mark Antony: identity construction and ingroup/outgroup formation in Philippics One and Three 448
- Ego sum Amphitruo: Selbstidentifikation in der römischen Komödie 464
- Index 479
