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Conceptual Metaphor in the “Melian Dialogue”
No full textThe “Melian Dialogue” serves as a prime example of how political thinking manifests itself in how one talks and, obviously, acts. During the negotiations the Athenians heavily employ vocabulary that is prototypically found in financial contexts to talk about stuff that was only rarely, if not at all, conceptualized as such. At the bottom of this is how the Athenians did politics back then, namely by placing all and everything on the cost-benefit scale (commonly known as “Realpolitik”). The relevant metaphors could be subsumed under the general supermetaphor LIFE IS COMMERCE that captures the quintessence of “Realpolitik”
Συγκριτική μελέτη των μεγεθυντικών επιθημάτων -one, -ona και -άρος, -άρα της Ιταλικής και της Νέας Ελληνικής εντός των εκφωνημάτων
No full textThis paper aims to describe the morphopragmatic functions of Italian’s suffixes -one, -ona and the Modern Greek’s -αρος, -άρα. According to Dressler Merlini Barbaresi (1994) morphological rules interact directly with pragmatic conditions. We analyse in depth (a) the pragmatic effects of augmentatives in speech situations and speech acts, (b) the interaction between the features [big] and [fictive] and the resulting character of exaggeration, on which ludic effects are mainly based
Attitudes of second-generation immigrant native English speakers vs. native English speakers towards foreign accents
No full textThis study examined the attitudes towards non-native speakers by second-generation immigrant native English speakers (SGINES) vs. native English speakers whose parents were both native English speakers (NES). Participants rated recordings of accented English (Thai, Albanian, Pakistani, and Italian) as well as Southeast British English on ‘approachability’, ‘friendliness’, ‘intelligibility’, and ‘attractiveness’. It was found that (a) SGINES rated more favourably foreign accented English than NES did and (b) the two groups shared implicit biases towards accents so that Italian was, overall, the most favourable accent, Albanian was the least favourable one, and Thai and Pakistani were in between
Αναζητώντας τη γλωσσική ποικιλότητα στα σχολικά εγχειρίδια της Γλώσσας του Γυμνασίου: Πορίσματα ποιοτικής ανάλυσης
No full textLinguistic variety in the educational process has gathered momentum in recent years, since it serves pedagogical, social and linguistic objectives. The mainstream textbook is considered one of the most important sources of information reflecting the authors’ method of exploiting local dialects which influences students’ attitudes towards these dialects. In the present research, an attempt was made to investigate the existence of linguistic variety in the coursebooks of the Μodern Greek Language of the Greek high school by using Content Analysis (Μπονίδης 2004). Six textbooks were put under the lens revealing that they do not provide students with sufficient exposure to geographical language variation. Finally, the major conclusions are presented along with reflections for further improvement of our research
Truth-conditional pragmatics: A reconsideration of the distinction between narrowing and broadening
No full textLexical adjustment can be achieved by a pragmatic process of lexical modulation or ad hoc concept construction. While this process is claimed to be uniform, it is also commonly viewed as falling into two distinct types: narrowing and broadening. In the current paper, we take issue with this two-directional approach to ad hoc concept construction. We argue that it is based on a problematic line of argument as well as terminological misapplication, detracting from transparency and parsimony. In this light, the dual view of ad hoc concept construction needs to be replaced by a more coherent or integrative type of view that drops the distinction between narrowing and broadening or their synonymous terms
An attempt at unveiling the mystery of the present perfect – by analyzing it as a device to counterbalance the impact of other grammatical entities
No full textThe paper argues that the raison d’être of the present perfect (PP) across languages is not in its meaning but in certain functional dependencies. The existence of grammatical entities in a language is conjectured to be neither accidental/haphazard, nor the result of some magic (God-given). Grammatical entities in a language emerge and exist in order to offset the impact of other grammatical entities; they either hang together or exist to make up for the absence of other grammatical entities. PP signals the value non-witnessed intrinsically, not by default, counterbalancing the witnessed-by-default value of the preterit, and the two grammemes hang together
Τα ζητήματα των Πρεσβυγενών Πατριαρχείων (τέλη 19ου-αρχές 20ού αι.) στο έργο του Χρυσόστομου Παπαδόπουλου και η οπτική του
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Αρχαία τραγωδία και μερική ανατροπή του ‘δυτικού’ προτύπου ερμηνείας στη νεοελληνική σκηνή: Οι παραστάσεις των Περσών του Αισχύλου από το Εθνικό Θέατρο σε σκηνοθεσία Δημήτρη Ροντήρη (1939/1946) και από το Θέατρο Τέχνης σε σκηνοθεσία Κάρολου Κουν (1965)
No full textΣτα μέσα της δεκαετίας του ‘60 ο Κάρολος Κουν αποπειράται, με τους Πέρσες του Αισχύλου, να ανατρέψει το «δυτικό» πρότυπο σκηνικής ερμηνείας του αρχαίου δράματος, και να ‘διεμβολίσει’ την επικυριαρχία των προσεγγίσεων του Εθνικού Θεάτρου στη νεοελληνική σκηνή. Επιδιώκοντας να ιχνηλατήσει τούτη την προσπάθεια του Θεάτρου Τέχνης, το παρόν άρθρο επιχειρεί να συγκρίνει τη χρήση των σημειακών συστημάτων της παράστασης των Περσών που ‘τάραξε τα νερά’ το 1965, με τα αντίστοιχα θεατρικά χαρακτηριστικά της ομώνυμης παραγωγής του κρατικού φορέα που παρουσιάστηκε την περίοδο 1939-1946. Συνεπώς, παράλληλα με την προσέγγιση του Κουν, στο άρθρο αναλύεται (και) η σκηνοθετική ερμηνεία του Δημήτρη Ροντήρη, ενός από τους πιο συνεπείς εκφραστές του «δυτικού» προτύπου στη νεοελληνική σκηνή.