The language of Athenian women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23403255 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan H Sommerstein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Pages | 15-38 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Talking about laughter and other studies in Greek comedy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554195.003.0002 |
| OpenAlex | W2481362249 |
| ISBN | 9780199554195 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
This chapter examines the extent and nature of gender-based differentiation in spoken Attic Greek between about 430 and 290 bc, using primarily the evidence of comedy. It explores differences between the speech of men and of women, and between speech addressed to men and to women, in the areas of oaths, adjectives, address forms, obscenity, particles, and phonological features. The differences are found to be moderate in extent, but some of them clearly reflect the subordinate status of women in society; taken as a whole, gender differentiation does not significantly increase or diminish during the period considered.
Linguistics · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · History · Philosophy
Epicharmus and early Sicilian comedy
Divinity and religious practice
The reception of Greek comedy in Rome
Comedy and Athenian law
The politics of Greek comedy
The rivals of Aristophanes and Menander
Dramatic technique and Athenian comedy
Contexts of reception in antiquity
Fourth-century comedy before Menander
The Greek ‘comic hero’
Performing gender in Greek Old and New Comedy
Theiconography of comedy
Attic comedy in the rhetorical and moralising traditions
Comedy and Athenian festival culture
The sociolinguistics of gender, social status and masculinity in Aristophanes
Mulheres na cena esquiliana
Donne sulla scena eschilea
How to be impolite in ancient Greek
The Play of Language in Ancient Greek Comedy
Pragmatic use of ancient greek pronouns in two communicative frameworks
Gender and language change in Old Norse sentential negatives
The Tutor’s Beard
Women and the Language of Food in the Plays of Aristophanes
The Baby as Hero? The Role of the Infant in Menander
| Citations per year | 1.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2024 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |