Camille Denizot

List of John Benjamins publications for which Camille Denizot plays a role.

Title

Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek

Edited by Camille Denizot and Olga Spevak

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 190] 2017. xvi, 309 pp.
Subjects Classical linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Spevak, Olga and Camille Denizot 2017 Chapter 1. Pragmatics in Latin and Ancient Greek: An introductionPragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek, Denizot, Camille and Olga Spevak (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
In Ancient Greek, an impolite order can be uttered by means of a negative interrogative in the future tense (οὐκ ἐρεῖς; ‘Won’t you talk?’). The aim of this paper is to understand to what extent this type of utterance is impolite, and to explain how such a conventional and indirect order can… read more