The expression of happiness in the plautine comedy
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Plautus , Happiness, Positive PolitenessAbstract
In this article, we intend to investigate how the expression of happiness is shown in the speeches of the Plautine drama, in different scenes, as a resource that promotes the maintenance of the stock characters' positive face. We are particularly interested in analyzing Plautus' explicit use of gaudere, either in Sosia's empathic assertion in Amphitruo (vv. 957-961), or in the unsuccessful greeting between the senes of Trinummus (v. 51-54), or in communication in absentia from Dordalus to Toxilus in Persa (vv. 501-502), among other examples. Taking into account the scenic context and the perlocutions it provokes, we conclude that the functions performed by gaudere reduce the social distance between the interlocutors and allude to the social and religious commensality of the Vrbs.
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