<i>Cum tacent, clamant:</i>The Pragmatics of Silence in Catullus

McNeill, Randall L. B.

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“…242ff. ); Thalmann (1985aThalmann ( , 1985b; Schön (1987); Scarpi (1987); Ciani (1987); Bilmes (1994); Kurzon (1998); Itakura (2001); Ephratt (2008; Kraus (2010);McNeill (2010). On censorship, see Momigliano (1942); Mortley (1986); Syme (1986); Feeney (1992); Ziogas (2015: pp.…”

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Keeping one's identity, changing one's role: shifting speech and power dynamics in divine epic councils (Od. 1.26−95, 5.1−27 Il. 4.1−72 Arg. 3.1−113)

Christou

2023

Graeco-Latina Brunensia

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Conversations can reveal the shifting nature of power relations between speaking characters. Especially in epic tradition, which includes a high proportion of speech and hence speech exchanges, the different characteristics of a character's speeches across similar scenes allow for different evaluations of their effect on the interlocutors. This paper focuses on the presentation of Athena's (and consequently her interlocutors') role in a number of divine councils (Iliad, Odyssey and Argonautica) by examining her words both in terms of the speech mode used and its particular style as well as the various types of power incorporated. Her repeated presence in councils shows her use of different speech elements in her talking through which she either foregrounds or challenges the type of power she possesses in her relations with others. These speech and power-related elements affect her characterisation and reveal her dynamic textual role across epics. Intertextual and intratextual links within epic tradition disclose more clearly the variability of relational speech and power patterns across a character's words and their consequences for the shaping of the speaking character's role in a given scene and across similar scenes within the epic genre, which retrospectively have an impact on the ultimate narrative end.

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Keeping one's identity, changing one's role: shifting speech and power dynamics in divine epic councils (Od. 1.26−95, 5.1−27 Il. 4.1−72 Arg. 3.1−113)

Christou

2023

Graeco-Latina Brunensia

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Silence

Kurzon¹

2015

Handbook of Pragmatics

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Gesture–speech unity

McNeill

2014

LIA

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This paper outlines an argument for how development in child speech and gesture could shed light on language evolution: child acquisition can be thought of as two types of acquisition, one of which goes extinct (gesture-first, Acquisition 1) and is replaced by another (gesture–speech unity, Acquisition 2). For ontogenesis, this implies that children acquire two languages, one of which is extinct, and which again goes extinct in ontogenesis (it continues as “gestures of silence” rather than as gestures of speech). There is no way to get from Acquisition 1 to Acquisition 2. They are on different tracks. Even when they converge in the same sentence, as they sometimes do, they alternate and do not combine. I propose that the 3~4 year timing of Acquisition 2 relates to the natural selection of a kind of gestural self–response I call “Mead’s Loop”, which took place in a certain psychological milieu at the origin of language. This milieu emerges now in ontogenesis at 3~4 years and with it Mead’s Loop. It is self-aware agency, on which a self-response depends. Other developments, such as theory of mind and shared intentionality, likewise depend on it and also emerge around the same time. The prefrontal cortex, anchoring a ring of language centers in the brain, matures at that point as well, another factor influencing the late timing. On the other hand, a third acquisition, speech evoking adult attachment, begins at (or even before) birth, as shown by a number of studies, and provides continuity through the two acquisitions and extinction.

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Cum tacent, clamant:The Pragmatics of Silence in Catullus

Cited by 4 publications

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Keeping one's identity, changing one's role: shifting speech and power dynamics in divine epic councils (Od. 1.26−95, 5.1−27 Il. 4.1−72 Arg. 3.1−113)

Keeping one's identity, changing one's role: shifting speech and power dynamics in divine epic councils (Od. 1.26−95, 5.1−27 Il. 4.1−72 Arg. 3.1−113)

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