Rasgos del lenguaje coloquial en 'Apocolocyntosis' de Séneca el Joven

• Authors: Berger Łukasz

Title variants

EN

Features of colloquial language in 'Apocolocyntosis' of Seneca the Younger

• Languages of publication: ES

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the present work is to apply methods of discourse analysis into the study of the colloquial language in the Apocolocyntosis by Seneca the Younger. Using this linguistic approach, an effort will be taken to draft some lexical-semantic, syntactical and textual strategies the author of the satire worked with to approximate ts language to sermo cotidianus. A theoretical framework will be considered first so as to establish criteria for a stylistic analysis of the (conceptually) oral discourse in contrast with the (conceptually) written modalities. As a result the article will take into account the phenomena of emotiveness and subjectivity of the message, concreteness and vividness of the meaning as well as simplification and economy of the linguistic units employed. The main part of the work will deal with exemplification of methods of creating a colloquial feel of Apocolocynosis on the level of vocabulary, syntax and the organization of the discourse. In addition, some remarks will be made regarding psycholinguistic motivation for the particular construction of oral texts. To recapitulate this short overlook of colloquial phenomena the artistic efficiency of the Senecan satire will be emphasized. The polyphony and the vividness of oral registers in his work consequently are to be analyzed as means of a humoristic characterization.

Keywords

EN

Seneca; Apocolocyntosis; satire; colloquial language; orality; literacy; sermo cotidianus

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 5-22

Dates

published

2012-12-30

Contributors

author

Berger Łukasz

• Instytut Filologii Klasycznej Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, ul. Fredry 10, 61-701 Poznań, Poland