‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature
After a short introduction to code-switching and Classics, this article offers an overview of the phenomenon of code-switching in Roman literature with some comments on possible generic restrictions, followed by a survey of Roman attitudes to the practice. The analysis then focuses on Roman letter w...
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| description | After a short introduction to code-switching and Classics, this article offers an overview of the phenomenon of code-switching in Roman literature with some comments on possible generic restrictions, followed by a survey of Roman attitudes to the practice. The analysis then focuses on Roman letter writing and investigates code-switching in the second-century correspondence of Fronto (mainly letters between Marcus Aurelius, who became Emperor in AD 161, and his tutor Fronto). This discussion uses part of a new detailed database of Greek code-switches in Roman epistolography and is largely sociolinguistic in approach. It makes comparisons with other ancient and modern corpora where possible and highlights the value of code-switching research in responding to a range of (socio)linguistic, literary and historical questions. |
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| spelling | nottingham-446722020-05-04T17:11:54Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44672/ ‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature Mullen, Alex After a short introduction to code-switching and Classics, this article offers an overview of the phenomenon of code-switching in Roman literature with some comments on possible generic restrictions, followed by a survey of Roman attitudes to the practice. The analysis then focuses on Roman letter writing and investigates code-switching in the second-century correspondence of Fronto (mainly letters between Marcus Aurelius, who became Emperor in AD 161, and his tutor Fronto). This discussion uses part of a new detailed database of Greek code-switches in Roman epistolography and is largely sociolinguistic in approach. It makes comparisons with other ancient and modern corpora where possible and highlights the value of code-switching research in responding to a range of (socio)linguistic, literary and historical questions. Sage 2015-08-01 Article PeerReviewed Mullen, Alex (2015) ‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature. Language and Literature, 24 (3). pp. 213-232. ISSN 1461-7293 Greek; Latin; Code-switching; Roman literature; Letters; Fronto; Cicero; Pliny http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0963947015585244 doi:10.1177/0963947015585244 doi:10.1177/0963947015585244 |
| spellingShingle | Greek; Latin; Code-switching; Roman literature; Letters; Fronto; Cicero; Pliny Mullen, Alex ‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature |
| title | ‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature |
| title_full | ‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature |
| title_fullStr | ‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature |
| title_full_unstemmed | ‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature |
| title_short | ‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature |
| title_sort | ‘in both our languages’: greek-latin code-switching in roman literature |
| topic | Greek; Latin; Code-switching; Roman literature; Letters; Fronto; Cicero; Pliny |
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