TY - JOUR
T1 - Alcuni casi di (presunto) lessico poetico in Senofonte
AU - FAVI, FEDERICO
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The study of Xenophon’s language has attracted renewed interest in recent years, but much remains to be done. This paper examines a category of lexemes employed by Xenophon, namely, those that critics have commonly referred to as “poeticisms”. Without questioning the existence of forms of poetic origin in Xenophon, this paper examines a selection of forms for which a classification in the category of “poeticism” is unsatisfactory for various reasons. First, it is necessary to reject the binary opposition between poetic language and an underdefined common, non-marked, medium- register language that is allegedly proper to prose writing. Furthermore, not all the forms of marked language adopted by Xenophon pursue the aim of raising the register, as their use may be motivated by the attempt to achieve rhetorical effect. Finally, one must consider the possibility that those forms which appear poetic based on their distribution in literature were perceived differently, as in the case of terms belonging to specialized languages or of terms which are euphemistic in various ways.
AB - The study of Xenophon’s language has attracted renewed interest in recent years, but much remains to be done. This paper examines a category of lexemes employed by Xenophon, namely, those that critics have commonly referred to as “poeticisms”. Without questioning the existence of forms of poetic origin in Xenophon, this paper examines a selection of forms for which a classification in the category of “poeticism” is unsatisfactory for various reasons. First, it is necessary to reject the binary opposition between poetic language and an underdefined common, non-marked, medium- register language that is allegedly proper to prose writing. Furthermore, not all the forms of marked language adopted by Xenophon pursue the aim of raising the register, as their use may be motivated by the attempt to achieve rhetorical effect. Finally, one must consider the possibility that those forms which appear poetic based on their distribution in literature were perceived differently, as in the case of terms belonging to specialized languages or of terms which are euphemistic in various ways.
KW - Xenophon
KW - History of the Greek Language
KW - Greek Language and Literature
KW - Xenophon
KW - History of the Greek Language
KW - Greek Language and Literature
UR - https://iris.uniupo.it/handle/11579/200747
M3 - Article
SN - 2284-2497
JO - RATIONES RERUM
JF - RATIONES RERUM
ER -