Unpacking the norms of Atticism : impersonal modality and the negotiation of overt prestige in Atticist lexicographers
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- Ezra la Roi (UGent) and Emmanuel Roumanis
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- 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.
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- prescriptivism, Atticism, prestige, historical sociolinguistics, Post-Classical Greek
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- la Roi, Ezra, and Emmanuel Roumanis. “Unpacking the Norms of Atticism : Impersonal Modality and the Negotiation of Overt Prestige in Atticist Lexicographers.” GRAECO-LATINA BRUNENSIA, vol. 29, no. 2, 2024, pp. 59–77.
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- la Roi, E., & Roumanis, E. (2024). Unpacking the norms of Atticism : impersonal modality and the negotiation of overt prestige in Atticist lexicographers. GRAECO-LATINA BRUNENSIA, 29(2), 59–77.
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- Roi, Ezra la, and Emmanuel Roumanis. 2024. “Unpacking the Norms of Atticism : Impersonal Modality and the Negotiation of Overt Prestige in Atticist Lexicographers.” GRAECO-LATINA BRUNENSIA 29 (2): 59–77.
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- la Roi, Ezra, and Emmanuel Roumanis. 2024. “Unpacking the Norms of Atticism : Impersonal Modality and the Negotiation of Overt Prestige in Atticist Lexicographers.” GRAECO-LATINA BRUNENSIA 29 (2): 59–77.
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- 1.la Roi E, Roumanis E. Unpacking the norms of Atticism : impersonal modality and the negotiation of overt prestige in Atticist lexicographers. GRAECO-LATINA BRUNENSIA. 2024;29(2):59–77.
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- [1]E. la Roi and E. Roumanis, “Unpacking the norms of Atticism : impersonal modality and the negotiation of overt prestige in Atticist lexicographers,” GRAECO-LATINA BRUNENSIA, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 59–77, 2024.
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author = {{la Roi, Ezra and Roumanis, Emmanuel}},
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journal = {{GRAECO-LATINA BRUNENSIA}},
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language = {{eng}},
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title = {{Unpacking the norms of Atticism : impersonal modality and the negotiation of overt prestige in Atticist lexicographers}},
volume = {{29}},
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