LINGUIST List 13.3323

Tue Dec 17 2002

Books: Historical Linguistics: Dickey

Editor for this issue: Marisa Ferrara <marisalinguistlist.org>

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1. bartonm, Latin Forms of Address: Dickey

			
Title: Latin Forms of Address
Subtitle: From Plautus to Apuleius
			
Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press 
 http://www.oup-usa.org/		 
			
Book URL: http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0199242879.html
 
Author: Eleanor Dickey, Columbia University 

Hardback: ISBN: 0199242879, Pages: 434 pp, Price: $ 65.00
			
Abstract:

How did Romans address their children, their parents, their slaves,
and their patrons? When one Roman called another "dearest," "master,"
"brother," "human being," "executioner," or "soft little cheese," what
did these terms really mean and why? This book brings to bear on such
questions a corpus of 15,441 addresses spanning four centuries, drawn
from literary prose, poetry, letters, inscriptions, ostraca, and
papyri and analyzed using recent work in sociolinguistics. Including a
glossary of the 500 most common addresses and quick-reference tables
explaining the rules of usage, this original and highly readable work
will be enjoyed even by those with no prior knowledge of Latin.

Lingfield(s): Anthropological Linguistics
		Historical Linguistics
		Sociolinguistics
			 
Subject Language(s): Latin (Language Code: LTN)

Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)