Answers to Multiple Questions in Greek Drama

doi: https://doi.org/10.31810/rsel.52.2.7

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Multiple true questions; order of answers; preference for contiguity; Ancient Greek; Conversation Analysis

Abstract

The focus of this paper is to analyse the order in which heaped questions are answered in a selection of plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander. According to Sacks (1987), the last question is expected to be answered first by virtue of the so-called «preference for contiguity». This is the usual order in Homer, as Cicero already noticed (Att. 1. 16. 1). In Greek Drama, however, we can hardly affirm that there is any preference for contiguity, at least as far as multiple questions and multiple answers are concerned.

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2022-12-31

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López Romero, M., & Rodríguez-Piedrabuena, S. (2022). Answers to Multiple Questions in Greek Drama: doi: https://doi.org/10.31810/rsel.52.2.7. Revista Española De Lingüística, 52(2), 129-154. Retrieved from http://revista.sel.edu.es/index.php/revista/article/view/2115

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