Women in Aeschylean scene: a linguistic characterization
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https://doi.org/10.25187/codex.v9i1.40560Keywords:
Aeschylus, Oresteia, characters, sociolinguistics, genderAbstract
This paper examines the linguistic devices by means of which Aeschylus achieved the presentation of the female characters of the Oresteia. The analysis is made after a survey of the recitative sections of the three tragedies; phonetic, morphologic and syntactic features have been studied and compared with the language of the masculine characters. The results of this research fit with other precedent attempts to show how sociolinguistics can explain the formal portraiture of the tragic and comic characters.
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