Evert van Emde Boas
Biographic Data
| ID | 5635886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evert van Emde Boas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evert van Emde |
| FAMILY NAME | Boas |
| SIGNATURE | BOAS E E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3992-1443 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Mind Style, Cognitive Stylistics, and Ēthopoiia in Lysias
This paper approaches Lysianic ēthopoiia from the methodological perspective of ‘mind style’, a concept taken from modern stylistics. It is argued that Lysias gave his speakers individualized speaking styles that are indicative of their characters. The narrative of Lysias 1 is used as test case, and the analysis is based on a variety of linguistic features (sentence length, particle usage, pronoun usage) and cognitive concepts (mindblindness, sch…
Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek
Differential effects of film genre on viewers’ absorption, identification, and enjoyment
Marketers, filmmakers, and cinema-goers assume that genre has a large effect on how the audience responds to and engages with a film. However, trait measures such as transportability suggest that, in some cases, individual differences may shape audience engagement more than genre does. To investigate this disparity, we compared viewers’ enjoyment, identification with characters, and story world absorption (including three subscales: Transportatio…
Emotion, Memory, Meaning, Directions
This response article reviews the contributions of Kirsten Marie Hartvigsen and Thomas Kraus to this special issue, and uses them as the basis for a discussion of some theoretical and methodological issues relevant to cognitive narratology and cognitive literary studies more broadly. Without offering substantial answers itself, the response poses questions concerning (i) the compatibility of different scientific frameworks used in cognitive model…
The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek
This is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical Greek in English in a century. The first work of its kind to reflect significant advances in linguistics made in recent decades, it provides students, teachers and academics with a comprehensive yet user-friendly treatment. The chapters on phonology and morphology make full use of insights from comparative and historical linguistics to elucidate complex systems of roots, stems and ending…
Attending to Tragic Messenger Speeches
The chapter draws on the psychological as well as everyday notion of ‘attention’ to analyse the experience afforded by tragic messenger speeches. What marks out this experience, it is argued, is that attention shifts dynamically between not just two levels (the world of the play and the performance qua performance) but three: the offstage world of the messenger’s narrative, the messenger and his listeners onstage, and the performance qua performa…
Form and Function in Greek Grammar
Albert Rijksbaron is internationally known as one of the leading scholars of the Ancient Greek language, whose work has exerted a strong and lasting influence on the scholarly debate concerning many aspects of Greek linguistics. This volume brings together twenty of his papers, two of which have been translated into English and some which are not easily accessible elsewhere. The selection represents the full range of Rijksbaron’s research, includ…
Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature
This is the fourth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. The book deals with the narratological concepts of character and characterization and explores the textual devices used for purposes of characterization by ancient Greek authors from Homer to Heliodorus.; Readership: Anyone working on ancient Greek (narrative) literature, and anyone interested in issues of character and characterization in both ancient and modern literatu…
The Discourse Function of the Imperfect
In this paper the functioning of the imperfect is examined, both within the overall Greek verbal system and on discourse level. To this end first the temporal properties of the various indicatives are discussed, the main question being: how much temporal information does a given indicative provide us with? It can be shown that the imperfect is the past tense par excellence of Greek, and that the aorist indicative is not inherently a past tense. I…
Language and Character in Euripides’ Electra
This study of Euripides’ Electra approaches the play through the lens of modern linguistics. A variety of modern linguistics theories (conversation analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics (on gender and politeness), paroemiology, and discourse studies) are introduced and then applied to the text of the play, with the aim of enhancing literary interpretation. The book has a specific focus on issues of characterization and demonstrates how Euripides…
Language and Character in Euripides' Electra
A Tense Affair
This chapter focuses on the messenger speech and on the evaluation of the characters of Orestes and Aegisthus. The messenger’s narrative is analysed along narratological lines, with a particular focus on the use of verbal tenses and direct speech and on the manner in which these linguistic devices contribute to the careful development of suspense. It is argued that this suspense and the messenger’s biased focalization of the narrative stimulate a…
The Language of Rhetoric
This chapter focuses on the agōn scene. The speeches of Clytemnestra and Electra are analysed side by side, using the traditional four-part division of oratorical speeches. It is argued that the overall organization and precise rhetorical techniques in the two women’s speeches (as reflected in the use of particles, tenses, and other linguistic features) are indicative of their characterization. Clytemnestra’s speech paints Agamemnon in as bleak a…
Constancy amid Change
This chapter focuses on the various ways in which Electra is characterized by her language, and in so doing it contributes to the long-standing debate over how her character is to be evaluated; the chapter argues against extreme negative readings. All of the linguistic methods outlined in the Introduction are brought to bear on the discussion, as each of Electra’s scenes is discussed in turn. Some consistent patterns are identified, which reveal …
Conclusion
The conclusion discusses the advantages and limitations of applying modern linguistic approaches to Greek tragic texts. It also sketches some possibilities for further research along such lines: characterization through style; gender-specific language; the use of generalizations; and differences between tragic (or Euripidean) language and everyday language.
Orestes’ Linguistic (Dis)guises
This chapter treats the character of Orestes, with a particular focus on the ways in which he uses language to disguise his identity. Special attention is paid to Orestes’ use of generalizations, particularly in his long speech at 367–400. It is argued that Orestes uses generalizing speech in part to deflect attention and that at the same time it functions as an instrument by which Euripides heightens dramatic irony. The discussion of the speech …
Redrawing the Lines
This chapter has a textual–critical focus. It discusses the attribution of speakers to lines in two vexed passages, 671–93 (the prayer that caps the recognition and planning sequence) and 959–87 (Orestes’ hesitation before the matricide). With respect to 671–93, it is argued that the insertion (by many editors) of stichomythia is unlikely given the nature of our textual evidence, and in any case unsound. With respect to 959–87, Camper’s reversal …
Character and Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature
Conceptualization, Questions, Plan of the Book 'When we think of the works of Tolstoy or George Eliot, we are not remembering Tolstoy and George Eliot, we are remembering Dolly, Kitty, Stiva, Dorothea and Casaubon' . These words by Iris Murdoch (1959: 266) underline the central thematic importance of characters in narrative.1 Yet for all its importance, 'character' is a notoriously slippery concept: the continuing lack of a comprehensive theory o…
The Tutor’s Beard
In this paper I discuss several cases of controversial speaker-line attribution in Greek tragedy, with the overall goal of showing that greater attention needs to be paid to gender-specific language in the business of textual criticism. Differences between male and female speech in Greek drama may offer crucial indications for the attribution of contested lines. I argue that the distribution of E. El. 959-966 in the manuscripts should be maintain…
Euripides
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Syntax
The Tutor’s Beard
In this paper I discuss several cases of controversial speaker-line attribution in Greek tragedy, with the overall goal of showing that greater attention needs to be paid to gender-specific language in the business of textual criticism. Differences between male and female speech in Greek drama may offer crucial indications for the attribution of contested lines. I argue that the distribution of E. El. 959-966 in the manuscripts should be maintain…
Euripides
Language and Character in Euripides’ Electra
This study of Euripides’ Electra approaches the play through the lens of modern linguistics. A variety of modern linguistics theories (conversation analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics (on gender and politeness), paroemiology, and discourse studies) are introduced and then applied to the text of the play, with the aim of enhancing literary interpretation. The book has a specific focus on issues of characterization and demonstrates how Euripides…
Language and Character in Euripides' Electra
A Tense Affair
This chapter focuses on the messenger speech and on the evaluation of the characters of Orestes and Aegisthus. The messenger’s narrative is analysed along narratological lines, with a particular focus on the use of verbal tenses and direct speech and on the manner in which these linguistic devices contribute to the careful development of suspense. It is argued that this suspense and the messenger’s biased focalization of the narrative stimulate a…
The Language of Rhetoric
This chapter focuses on the agōn scene. The speeches of Clytemnestra and Electra are analysed side by side, using the traditional four-part division of oratorical speeches. It is argued that the overall organization and precise rhetorical techniques in the two women’s speeches (as reflected in the use of particles, tenses, and other linguistic features) are indicative of their characterization. Clytemnestra’s speech paints Agamemnon in as bleak a…
Constancy amid Change
This chapter focuses on the various ways in which Electra is characterized by her language, and in so doing it contributes to the long-standing debate over how her character is to be evaluated; the chapter argues against extreme negative readings. All of the linguistic methods outlined in the Introduction are brought to bear on the discussion, as each of Electra’s scenes is discussed in turn. Some consistent patterns are identified, which reveal …
Conclusion
The conclusion discusses the advantages and limitations of applying modern linguistic approaches to Greek tragic texts. It also sketches some possibilities for further research along such lines: characterization through style; gender-specific language; the use of generalizations; and differences between tragic (or Euripidean) language and everyday language.
Orestes’ Linguistic (Dis)guises
This chapter treats the character of Orestes, with a particular focus on the ways in which he uses language to disguise his identity. Special attention is paid to Orestes’ use of generalizations, particularly in his long speech at 367–400. It is argued that Orestes uses generalizing speech in part to deflect attention and that at the same time it functions as an instrument by which Euripides heightens dramatic irony. The discussion of the speech …
Redrawing the Lines
This chapter has a textual–critical focus. It discusses the attribution of speakers to lines in two vexed passages, 671–93 (the prayer that caps the recognition and planning sequence) and 959–87 (Orestes’ hesitation before the matricide). With respect to 671–93, it is argued that the insertion (by many editors) of stichomythia is unlikely given the nature of our textual evidence, and in any case unsound. With respect to 959–87, Camper’s reversal …
Character and Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature
Conceptualization, Questions, Plan of the Book 'When we think of the works of Tolstoy or George Eliot, we are not remembering Tolstoy and George Eliot, we are remembering Dolly, Kitty, Stiva, Dorothea and Casaubon' . These words by Iris Murdoch (1959: 266) underline the central thematic importance of characters in narrative.1 Yet for all its importance, 'character' is a notoriously slippery concept: the continuing lack of a comprehensive theory o…
Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature
This is the fourth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. The book deals with the narratological concepts of character and characterization and explores the textual devices used for purposes of characterization by ancient Greek authors from Homer to Heliodorus.; Readership: Anyone working on ancient Greek (narrative) literature, and anyone interested in issues of character and characterization in both ancient and modern literatu…
The Discourse Function of the Imperfect
In this paper the functioning of the imperfect is examined, both within the overall Greek verbal system and on discourse level. To this end first the temporal properties of the various indicatives are discussed, the main question being: how much temporal information does a given indicative provide us with? It can be shown that the imperfect is the past tense par excellence of Greek, and that the aorist indicative is not inherently a past tense. I…
The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek
This is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical Greek in English in a century. The first work of its kind to reflect significant advances in linguistics made in recent decades, it provides students, teachers and academics with a comprehensive yet user-friendly treatment. The chapters on phonology and morphology make full use of insights from comparative and historical linguistics to elucidate complex systems of roots, stems and ending…
Attending to Tragic Messenger Speeches
The chapter draws on the psychological as well as everyday notion of ‘attention’ to analyse the experience afforded by tragic messenger speeches. What marks out this experience, it is argued, is that attention shifts dynamically between not just two levels (the world of the play and the performance qua performance) but three: the offstage world of the messenger’s narrative, the messenger and his listeners onstage, and the performance qua performa…
Form and Function in Greek Grammar
Albert Rijksbaron is internationally known as one of the leading scholars of the Ancient Greek language, whose work has exerted a strong and lasting influence on the scholarly debate concerning many aspects of Greek linguistics. This volume brings together twenty of his papers, two of which have been translated into English and some which are not easily accessible elsewhere. The selection represents the full range of Rijksbaron’s research, includ…
Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek
Differential effects of film genre on viewers’ absorption, identification, and enjoyment
Marketers, filmmakers, and cinema-goers assume that genre has a large effect on how the audience responds to and engages with a film. However, trait measures such as transportability suggest that, in some cases, individual differences may shape audience engagement more than genre does. To investigate this disparity, we compared viewers’ enjoyment, identification with characters, and story world absorption (including three subscales: Transportatio…
Emotion, Memory, Meaning, Directions
This response article reviews the contributions of Kirsten Marie Hartvigsen and Thomas Kraus to this special issue, and uses them as the basis for a discussion of some theoretical and methodological issues relevant to cognitive narratology and cognitive literary studies more broadly. Without offering substantial answers itself, the response poses questions concerning (i) the compatibility of different scientific frameworks used in cognitive model…
Mind Style, Cognitive Stylistics, and Ēthopoiia in Lysias
This paper approaches Lysianic ēthopoiia from the methodological perspective of ‘mind style’, a concept taken from modern stylistics. It is argued that Lysias gave his speakers individualized speaking styles that are indicative of their characters. The narrative of Lysias 1 is used as test case, and the analysis is based on a variety of linguistic features (sentence length, particle usage, pronoun usage) and cognitive concepts (mindblindness, sch…
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