Graeco-Latina Brunensia : 2/2024 (volume 29)  Graeco-Latina Brunensia: 2/2024 (volume 29) 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2610639B

  Author(s)

  Petrovicova, Katarina

  City

  Brno 

  Country

  Czech Republic 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  - 

  Date of Publication

  2024 

  Publisher

  Masaryk University Press  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  145 

  Series

  Graeco-Latina Brunensia 29.2

  Subject

  History, 19th Century and Earlier

  Subject

  Philology / Linguistics

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Petrovičová, Katarina

  Publisher

  Masaryk University Press  

• Description

  Graeco-Latina Brunensia: 2/2024 (volume 29) Though the Atticist lexica have often been seen as 'codifying' a prestige variety, there have been very few studies of the specific ways in which Atticist lexica linguistically establish and accord overt prestige, i.e. a higher perceived social status of language use as recognized explicitly within a community. Therefore, we demonstrate that impersonal deontic modal expressions (forms of δεῖ and χρή) are used by the Atticist lexicographers in three ways to record usage norms with overt prestige: (1) report norms with overt prestige (incl. via negative association with social groups), (2) construct norms with overt prestige, and (3) negotiate norms with overt prestige. Our findings attest to a significant diversity within Atticist lexicography with regard to overt prestige: Aelius Dionysius and Pausanias (based on the limited material) seem to almost exclusively report norms, whereas Phrynichus reports, constructs and negotiates norms, and the Antiatticist exclusively (re)negotiates norms.