Published 2022-08-08
Keywords
- Plato,
- Pragmatic,
- Aristophanic discourse,
- Word order,
- Topic
- Focus ...More
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Abstract
Philologist specializing in classical attic propose considerer a work of art to discourse on Eros, which Platon put in mouth of the character “Aristophanes”, in his Symposium (189a-193e). It is thought to be very well achieved speech and among the most beautiful that was written in classical prose. Despite this great prestige, this discourse invented by Platon contains certain syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic elements, which have not yet been satisfactorily explained. Precisely, the research presented here has as its object of study one of these linguistic phenomena: the order of words within sentences. Traditionally, this topic has been studied by syntax (Dover, 1960) -an area in which classical Greek is claimed to have a free word order. However, in the last two decades, pragmatics has collaborated in a better understanding of this phenomenon. (Dik, 1995; Matic, 2003; Spevak y Denizot, 2017). The basic proposal we present is that, unlike syntactic analysis, pragmatics offers precise theoretical criteria that clearly explain why sentences have the word order chosen by the author. For this, the sentences of the aristophanic discourse were analyzed under the categories of topic and focus.
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