The Old Man and Linguistic Politeness in the Comedies of Plautus

• Authors: Łukasz Berger
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the article is to study the conversational behaviour of the Plautine old men in light of (im)politeness theory. The analysis concerns those scenes of salutatio and advice-giving where one of the speakers is a senex, in order to examine features of his linguistic characterisation.

Keywords

EN

old men; politeness theory; Roman comedy; greetings; advising; persuasion

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2017-12-15

Contributors

author

Łukasz Berger

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/sppgl.2017.XXVII.3.14