Orality and Performance in Classical Attic Prose : A Linguistic Approach

Content: Cover
 Orality and Performance in Classical Attic Prose: A Linguistic Approach
 Copyright
 Preface
 Table of Contents
 List of Figures
 List of Tables
 Abbreviations and Editions Used
 Editions used for linguistic analysis in Chapter 5
 1: The Orality of Attic Prose
 1.1 A manifold concept
 1.2 Oral language(s) and oral style(s)
 1.3 From composition to performance
 2: Contexts of Reception
 2.1 Texts and communication
 2.2 Reading
 2.3 Public and private situations
 3: The Writing of Attic Prose
 3.1 From composition to reception 3.2 Setting the scene (1): literacy and reading in classical athens3.3 Setting the scene (2): genres and written texts
 3.3.1 Epic poetry
 3.3.2 Monodic poetry
 3.3.3 Choral poetry
 3.3.4 Drama
 3.3.5 Ionic prose
 3.4 The circulation and use of attic prose texts
 3.4.1 Historiography
 3.4.2 Philosophy
 3.4.3 Oratory
 4: Comprehension
 4.1 The domains of clarity
 4.2 Precepts and examples
 4.3 The psycholinguistics of sapheneia
 4.3.1 Language comprehension: an overview
 4.3.2 Sentence processing
 4.3.3 Sentence length
 4.3.4 Sentence structure
 4.3.5 Word order
 4.3.6 Vocabulary 4.4 Paralinguistic and non-linguistic elements4.4.1 Prosody
 4.4.2 Gesture
 4.5 Reading the native mind
 5: Processing Attic Oratory in Performance: An Experiment in Reconstruction
 5.1 Design
 5.2 Methodology and limitations
 5.3 `I like drinking water,́ or: indifferent interpretations
 5.4 Results
 5.4.1 Lys. 1
 5.4.2 Lys. 12.1-50
 5.4.3 D. 22.1-33
 5.4.4 Antipho 1
 5.4.5 D. 9.1-40
 5.4.6 D. 15
 5.4.7 Hyp. 6
 5.4.8 Pl. Ap. 17a-24a4
 5.4.9 Antipho 4
 5.4.10 Isoc. 6.1-45
 5.4.11 Isoc. 7.1-47
 5.4.12 Th. 2.35-46
 5.4.13 Pl. Mnx. 236c11-244c3
 5.4.14 Isoc. 9.1-43
 5.5 Discussion