Dekker, Simeon (2021). The Slavic rendition of Greek speech reporting verbs in Chrysostom’s homilies in the Codex Suprasliensis: A case study into the transmission of diatribal discourse organization. Slověne, 10(1), pp. 186-216. Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences 10.31168/2305-6754
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Chrysostom’s homilies are characterized by a high degree of dialogicality. Multiple voices are not only expressed in lively quotes, but in enacted confrontations with fictitious opponents, such as Biblical characters, Jews or heretics. Chrysostom ‘plays’ both his own part and the opponents’ voices, who are thus not just quoted, but ‘enacted’. In order to demarcate the different voices, linguistic means can be employed; these are often fixed formulae that have occurred in Greek since the Hellenistic period as part of the ‘diatribal’ style.
This article identifies a number of Greek diatribal formulae that were taken over into an Old Church Slavonic translation in the Codex Suprasliensis. The main focus of the article is on the function of verba dicendi in the ‘assignment’ of the different voices in the discourse. The distribution of verba dicendi is presented quantitatively, but also analysed qualitatively. The present study allows us to evaluate the extent to which the dialogical features of the diatribe have been preserved in translated Old Church Slavonic texts. This, in turn, serves as a starting point for a further assessment of diatribal influences in other translated and original Slavic texts.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures |
UniBE Contributor: |
Dekker, Simeon |
Subjects: |
400 Language > 490 Other languages 800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 890 Other literatures |
ISSN: |
2305-6754 |
Publisher: |
Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
Funders: |
[42] Schweizerischer Nationalfonds |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Simeon Dekker |
Date Deposited: |
22 Jul 2021 11:41 |
Last Modified: |
01 May 2023 02:13 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.31168/2305-6754 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Diatribe, verba dicendi, translation, Old Church Slavonic, Codex Suprasliensis |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/156577 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/156577 |
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