A cognitive analysis of metrical irregularities in the ‘Ὥσπερ ξένοι’ book epigrams
| Autor: | Julie Boeten, Mark Janse |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Cultural Studies
Literature COLA (software architecture) Linguistics and Language History 060103 classics Literature and Literary Theory business.industry Philosophy Perspective (graphical) Intonation (linguistics) Cognitive analysis 06 humanities and the arts 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Language and Linguistics Dodecasyllable Variation (linguistics) Political verse Metre 0601 history and archaeology business 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 42:79-91 |
| ISSN: | 1749-625X 0307-0131 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/byz.2017.18 |
| Popis: | This article considers the variation in the metres of the ‘ὥσπερ ξένοι’ epigrams, collected in the Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams (DBBE). In its canonical form, these epigrams follow a dodecasyllabic metrical pattern. The seemingly unmetrical decasyllabic and decatetrasyllabic variants are explained from a cognitive-linguistic perspective as the pairing of different cola – 5+5 and 7+7 instead of the usual 7+5 or 5+7. From this perspective, cola can be equated with the cognitive ‘idea’ or ‘intonation units’ (IUs) used in ordinary speech. |
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